9 canonical passages across 9 cases, quoted by 53 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. Boclair.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | People v. Boclair Anchor | green | “frivolous or is patently without merit.” | 15 |
| 2 | People v. Patterson | green | “burge himself actively participated in the 'mistreatment' of wilson, burned wilson with a radiator, repeatedly shocked him, and 'engaged him in several unjustified physical altercations during which mr. wilson was handcuffed and incapable of providing any resistance.” | 6 |
| 3 | People v. Smith | green | “waiver, which would be a procedural affirmative defense for purposes of the first petition, becomes a substantive consideration going to the merits of a successive postconviction petition” | 6 |
| 4 | Childers v. Kruse | green | “a timely notice of appeal is both jurisdictional and mandatory” | 5 |
| 5 | People v. Morgan | green | “fundamental fairness so requires.” | 5 |
| 6 | People v. Jones | green | “totally contradicted by the record of the plea” | 5 |
| 7 | Niccum v. Botti, Marinaccio, DeSalvo & Tameling, Ltd. | green | “filing a notice of appeal is the jurisdictional step which initiates appellate review” | 5 |
| 8 | People v. Smith | green | “this objective factor is consistently identified as the newly discovered nature of the evidence defendant relies on.” | 3 |
| 9 | People v. Montgomery | green | “appellate review is generally restricted to what has been properly presented and preserved of record in the trial court” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.