174 Ill. 2d 302 - Fink v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997), 211 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Pitman (2004)
62 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 Terry v. Ohio · Delaware v. Prouse · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn. · United States v. Martinez-Fuerte
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`it must be presumed that the legislature acted with knowledge of the prevailing case law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.