161 Ill. 2d 409 - Cutinello v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997), 176 Ill. 2d 499 - Johnson v. Edgar (1997)
4 federal appellate · 76 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 Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · United States Railroad Retirement Board v. Fritz · Nordlinger v. Hahn · McDonald v. Board of Election Comm'rs of Chicago · 147 Ill. 2d 57 - DeLuna v. St. Elizabeth's Hospital
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.
“`a legislative choice is not subject to courtroom fact-finding and may be based on rational speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"When evaluating a classification, a reviewing court considers the broad discretion of the legislature to create statutory classifications for the general welfare. [(Bilyk v. Chicago Transit Authority (1988), 125 Ill. 2d 230, 236 .)] Thus, classifications made by the legislature are presumed valid, and any reasonable doubts must be resolved in favor of upholding them. (Bilyk, 125 Ill. 2d at 235 .) Further, a statute will be upheld 'if any set of facts can be reasonably conceived which justify distinguishing the class to which the law applies from the class to which the statute is inapplicable.’ (Bilyk, 125 Ill. 2d at 236 .) Our review in this regard is therefore deferential, and plaintiffs have the burden of establishing the unreasonableness of the legislative action. [DeLuna v. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital (1992), 147 Ill. 2d 57, 67 .]” Cutinello, 161 Ill. 2d at 417-18 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he General Assembly shall pass no special or local law when a general law is or can be made applicable.” Ill. Const. 1970, art. IV, § 13. Our supreme court has found that special legislation”
2 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.