173 Ill. 2d 433 - McNamee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 315 Ill. App. 3d 340 - Rodgers v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. (2000), 358 Ill. App. 3d 34 - VIKING CONST. MAN. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. (2005)
87 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 156 Ill. 2d 384 - Crum & Forster Managers Corp. v. Resolution Trust Corp. · 169 Ill. 2d 325 - Busch v. Graphic Color Corp. · 72 Ill. 2d 507 - Kerner v. State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois · 72 Ill. App. 3d 833 - Kraus v. Board of Trustees of Police Pension Fund · 15 Ill. 2d 369 - Jordan v. Metropolitan Sanitary District
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Membership in any pension or retirement system of the State, any unit of local government or school district, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, shall be an enforceable contractual relationship, the benefits of which shall not be diminished or impaired.” Ill. Const. 1970, art. XIII, § 5.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Benefits not being diminished really refers to this situation: If a police officer accepted employment under a provision where he was entitled to retire at two-thirds of his salary after twenty years of service, that could not be subsequently changed to say that he was entitled to only one-third of his salary after thirty years of service, or perhaps entitled to nothing. Thai is the thrust of the word "diminished." It was not intended to require 100 percent funding or 50 percent or 30 percent funding or get into any of those problems, aside from the very slim area where a court might judicially determine that imminent bankruptcy would really be important. [[Image here]] Mr. President and fellow delegates, I agree with Delegate Kinney, that as I read section 16, it doesn't require the funding of any pensions, and therefore the whole question of funding is irrelevant to the issue of whether we should adopt the provision. [[Image here]] I am voting yes in the hope that the points which Mr. Whalen has raised will be properly protected in the work of the Style and Drafting Committee and that there will be an affirmation that this does not direct or control funding. I vote yes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it will allow municipalities to contribute lower initial annual contributions to the police pension funds, thereby making the funds less secure.”
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.