57 Ill. 2d 15 - People v. Pullum’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Here the defendant was confronted with wholly unrelated charges. The crimes charged occurred 16 days apart, were wholly dissimilar, and contained no common elements. The only thread of continuity between the two offenses is that the defendant was in possession of marijuana and the 1970 Cadillac at the time of his arrest. The record does not indicate that the possession of marijuana at the time of the arrest for armed robbery was in any way connected with the armed robbery. We do not find, as did the appellate court, that the marijuana charge and armed-robbery charge are a part of the same comprehensive transaction, and we hold that the failure to grant the motion to sever constituted reversible error.” (People v. Pullum (1974), 56 Ill. 2d 15, 18 , 309 N.E.2d 565, 566 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 105 Ill. App. 3d 1069 - People v. Kinion