People v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2026
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 103 Ill. 2d 192 - People v. Jordan · 142 Ill. 2d 258 - People v. Henderson · 168 Ill. 2d 107 - People v. Arna · 111 Ill. 2d 180 - People v. Neal · 124 Ill. 2d 147 - People v. Young
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sentence of natural life imprisonment. The Young court focused on the fact that the extended-term provisions of section 5-8-2 authorized imposition of a sentence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Terry“a death sentence, those provisions also could not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Terry
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.