203 Ill. 2d 165 - People v. Gherna’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
227 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 530 - People v. Luedemann (2006), 211 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Pitman (2004)
227 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 Terry v. Ohio · Katz v. United States · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Bostick
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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] consensual encounter will lose its consensual nature if law[-]enforcement officers convey a message, by means of physical force or show of authority, that induces the individual to cooperate”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] court of review 'remains free to engage in its own assessment of the facts in relation to the issues presented and may draw its own conclusions when deciding what relief should be granted.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“may, within the parameters of the fourth amendment, conduct a brief, investigatory stop of a citizen when the officer has a reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.