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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 18 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from People v. Williams.

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1 People v. Williams Anchor
illappct · 2009
green “a wrongful conviction of an innocent person violates due process.” 5
2 People v. Harper
illappct · 2013
green “all well-pleaded facts that are not positively rebutted by the trial record are taken as true.” 5
3 People v. Pack
ill · 2007
green “liberally construed to afford a convicted person an opportunity to present questions of deprivation of constitutional rights” 4
4 People v. Jones
illappct · 2017
green “successive postconviction petitions are disfavored under the act,” 4

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