217 Ill. 2d 511 - People v. Moss’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 238 Ill. 2d 497 - People v. Close (2010), 228 Ill. 2d 222 - People v. Harris (2008)
70 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 · Wong Sun v. United States · Katz v. United States · Morrissey v. Brewer · Carroll v. United States
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer's subjective feelings may not dictate whether a pat-down search is valid or invalid. [Citation.] Rather, the test is objective: Would the facts available to the officer at the moment of the search `”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“vulnerable position of the officers, the trooper's concerns about the histories of the men who were pulled over, the defendant's MSR status, and his significantly reduced expectation of privacy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Collins“is the pat-down search recognized by the Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968).”
1 later decision 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.