Illinois v. Lidster’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
180 federal appellate · 36 district · 169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 526 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Ashcroft v. al-Kidd (2011), United States v. Jones (2012)
180 federal appellate · 36 district · 169 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Florida v. Royer · Brown v. Texas · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte · Haynes v. Washington
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 526 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as referring in context to circumstances similar to the circumstances then before the Court and not referring to quite different circumstances that the Court was not then considering.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[t]hat does not mean the stop is automatically, or even presumptively, constitutional. It simply means that [the court] must judge its reasonableness, hence, its constitutionality, on the basis of the individual circumstances.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he police appropriately tailored their checkpoint stops”
3 later decisions 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.