115 Ill. 2d 135 - Schlenz v. Castle’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 133 Ill. 2d 318 - Santiago v. Kusper (1990), 287 Ill. App. 3d 741 - Massachusetts Bay Insurance v. Unique Presort Services, Inc. (1997)
30 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 56 Ill. 2d 101 - Clarendon Associates v. Korzen · 57 Ill. 2d 318 - La Salle National Bank v. County of Cook · 64 Ill. 2d 434 - Hamer v. Kirk · 81 Ill. 2d 260 - O'Connor v. a & P Enterprises · 98 Ill. 2d 87 - McKenzie v. Johnson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In counties other than Cook, the taxpayer must first present his complaint to the county board of review. [Citations.] The taxpayer may then select one of two mutually exclusive [citation] routes of challenging the board’s decision. First, he may appeal to the Property Tax Appeal Board, whose decision is further reviewable in the courts under the Administrative Review Law [citation]. *** In the alternative, the taxpayer can pay his taxes under protest and file objections to the collector’s application for judgment in the circuit court.” Schlenz v. Castle (1986), 115 Ill. 2d 135, 142 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In counties other than Cook, the taxpayer must first present his complaint to the county board of review. [Citations.] The taxpayer may then select one of two mutually exclusive [citation] routes of challenging the board [of review’s] decision. First, he may appeal to the Property Tax Appeal Board, whose decision is further reviewable in the courts under the Administrative Review Law [citation]. *** In the alternative, the taxpayer can pay his taxes under protest and file objections to the collector’s application for judgment in the circuit court.” Schlenz, 115 Ill. 2d at 142 .”
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.