165 Ill. App. 3d 349 - Ball v. Edgar’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 63 Ill. 2d 128 - First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. · 113 Ill. App. 3d 962 - Midwest Bank & Trust Co. v. Village of Lakewood · Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Fox · 18 Ill. App. 3d 569 - City of Bloomington v. John Allan Co. · 92 Ill. App. 3d 916 - Havlen v. Waggoner
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a person is convicted of any of the offenses enumerated in this Section, the court may recommend and the Secretary of State in his discretion, without regard to whether such recommendation is made by the court, may, if application is made therefor, issue to such person a restricted driving permit ***.” (Emphasis added.) Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 95½, par. 6—205(c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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