114 Ill. 2d 474 - People v. Tosch’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators' Ass'n · Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council, Inc. · Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The fourteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution requires equality between groups of persons “similarly situated.” It does not deny a State the power to treat different classes of persons differently. (Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), 405 U.S. 438, 446-47 , 31 L. Ed. 2d 349, 358 , 92 S. Ct. 1029, 1034-35 ; People v. Mathey (1983), 99 Ill. 2d 292, 296 ; People v. Bradley (1980), 79 Ill. 2d 410, 416 .) In fact, in the absence of a fundamental right or suspect classification, the legislature may even differentiate between persons similarly situated if there is a rational basis for doing so. (Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia (1976), 427 U.S. 307, 312-13 , 49 L. Ed. 2d 520, 524 , 96 S. Ct. 2562, 2566-67 ; People ex rel. Difanis v. Barr (1980), 83 Ill. 2d 191, 204 ; Kujawinski v. Kujawinski (1978), 71 Ill. 2d 563, 578 .) This is the traditional equal protection analysis that has been used by this court in assessing both Federal and State equal protection challenges. (Illinois Housing Development Authority v. Van Meter (1980), 82 Ill. 2d 116, 121 ; Kujawinski v. Kujawinski (1978), 71 Ill. 2d 563, 578 ; S. Bloom, Inc. v. Mahin (1975), 61 Ill. 2d 70, 76 .) Under this analysis, “ ‘[a] classification “must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.” ’ ” Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), 405 U.S. 438, 447 , 31 ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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