83 Ill. App. 3d 137 - People v. McMahon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Both cases involve situations where the defendant was told to accompany police officers to the station for questioning. In both cases, the defendant was not handcuffed, but neither was he told he was free to go. In both cases, the defendant, after receiving and waiving his Miranda rights, made incriminating statements which were used against him at trial. In both cases, the defendant was not ‘booked’ and further processed until after statements were made. Just as there was an arrest in Dunaway, there was an arrest in the instant case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 94 Ill. App. 3d 850 - People v. Townes