Topic: as a general rule, courts in illinois do not render adviso… · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 11 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 In Re Alfred HH.

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1 In Re Alfred HH Anchor
ill · 2009
green “as a general rule, courts in illinois do not render advisory opinions, or consider issues where the result will not be affected regardless of how those issues are decided.” 5
2 Mapp v. Ohio
scotus · 1961
green “the criminal goes free, if he must, but it is the law that sets him free.” 3
3 People v. Rossi
illappct · 2009
green “he purpose of a petition for rehearing is to provide litigants with the opportunity to direct the court's attention to errors in the court's previous application of existing law” 3

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