341 Ill. App. 3d 56 - Johnson v. Target Stores, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Holmes v. Village of Hoffman Estates (2007), 369 Ill. App. 3d 794 - Ross v. Mauro Chevrolet (2006)
8 federal appellate · 26 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 151 Ill. 2d 445 - Maple v. Gustafson · 139 Ill. 2d 455 - Meerbrey v. Marshall Field & Co. · 85 Ill. 2d 253 - Sears v. Sears · 144 Ill. 2d 232 - Beck v. Stepp · 33 Ill. 2d 291 - Freides v. Sani-Mode Manufacturing Co.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the state of mind of the one commencing the prosecution, and not the actual facts of the case or the guilt or innocence of the accused, that is at issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A reasonable ground for belief of the guilt of an accused may be on information from other persons as well as on personal knowledge. [Citations.] It is not necessary to verify the correctness of each item of information so obtained; it is sufficient to act with reasonable prudence and caution in so proceeding.” Turner v. City of Chicago, 91 Ill. App. 3d 931, 935 (1980).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To sustain an action for false arrest, plaintiff must prove restraint or arrest caused or procured by the defendant, without his having reasonable grounds to believe that an offense was committed by the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.