113 Ill. 2d 473 - Maloney v. Bower’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 128 Ill. 2d 448 - People v. Bryant (1989), 184 Ill. 2d 260 - People v. Latona (1998)
89 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 Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham County North Carolina · Sevier v. Turner · 66 Ill. 2d 136 - Franzese v. Trinko · 19 Ill. 2d 342 - Western National Bank v. Village of Kildeer · 67 Ill. 2d 261 - Hughes v. Kiley
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is fundamental that courts, when interpreting a statute, must ascertain and give effect to the legislature’s intention in enacting the statute. In doing so courts must give the language of the statute its plain and ordinary meaning. *** Courts, when acting under the Public Defender Act, can make appointments only as the Act provides. A chief judge, in exercising his authority to issue general orders for the administration of the courts, cannot use that authority to enlarge the duties of the office of the public defender beyond what the legislature has provided.” Maloney, 113 Ill. 2d at 479 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not inappropriate to observe that in many places of the State offices of the public defender are now overburdened and struggle to fulfill their statutory obligations to provide representation for the indigent. This condition ... explains in part the unwillingness of those given the important responsibilities of public defenders to assume obligations beyond what the Public Defender Act imposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Bailey““The Public Defender, as directed by the court, shall act.as attorney, without fee, *** for all persons who are held in custody or who are charged with the commission of any criminal offense, and who the court finds are unable to employ counsel.””
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.