People v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2025
8 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 122 Ill. 2d 176 - People v. Enoch · 117 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Shum · 104 Ill. 2d 463 - People v. Stewart · 188 Ill. App. 3d 414 - People v. Palmer · 166 Ill. App. 3d 643 - People v. Threadgill
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the South Side and confront the people in the car, a car whose occupants he cannot see clearly at night.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. James“'[i]t's only your perception that has changed. Maybe they do have a big S on their chest. Perhaps.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. James“'what you see in the news each night, what you read in the paper each day,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. James
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.