159 Ill. 2d 249 - Baker v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 196 Ill. 2d 181 - In Re CN (2001), 174 Ill. 2d 1 - Committee for Educational Rights v. Edgar (1996)
4 federal appellate · 71 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 103 Ill. 2d 266 - In Re Marriage of Logston · 148 Ill. 2d 429 - Burke v. 12 Rothschild's Liquor Mart, Inc. · 111 Ill. 2d 350 - Harris v. Manor Healthcare Corp. · 88 Ill. 2d 300 - People Ex Rel. Fahner v. Carriage Way West, Inc. · 147 Ill. 2d 548 - Sulser v. Country Mutual Insurance
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he enumeration of one thing in a statute implies the exclusion of all others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““All persons shall have the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, creed, national ancestry and sex in the hiring and promotion practices of any employer or in the sale or rental of property. These rights are enforceable without action by the General Assembly, but the General Assembly by law may establish reasonable exemptions relating to these rights and provide additional remedies for their violation.” Ill. Const. 1970, art. I, § 17.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong indication of contrary legislative intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. People v. Gibson
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.