113 Ill. App. 3d 501 - People v. Kiser’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 28 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"A seizure occurs whenever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away. [Citation.] `Seizure' does not require physical restraint per se. If it is apparent from the circumstances that an individual is not free to ignore the officer and walk away, a seizure has occurred triggering fourth amendment protection. [Citation.]" 113 Ill. App.3d 501, 504 , 447 N.E.2d 858 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 149 Ill. App. 3d 156 - People v. Jackson

2. “The Fourth Amendment, of course, `applies to all seizures of the person, including seizures that involve only a brief detention short of traditional arrest. [Citations.] "[W]henever a police officer accosts an individual and restrains his freedom to walk away, he has `seized' that person,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 149 Ill. App. 3d 156 - People v. Jackson