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176 Ill. 2d 499 - Johnson v. Edgar’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

161
cited by 161 later decisions
1
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

160 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Boclair (2002), 193 Ill. 2d 413 - People v. Malchow (2000)

160 state decisions

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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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · People v. Daily Journal of Kankakee · 113 Ill. 2d 219 - Bernier v. Burris · 52 Ill. 2d 570 - Stein v. Howlett · 153 Ill. 2d 239 - Geja's Cafe v. Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority

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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be confined to one subject.” 111. Const. 1970, art. IV, § 8(d).”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 324 Ill. App. 3d 728 - People v. Fuller · 222 Ill. 2d 123 - People v. Olender
  2. “discordant provisions that by no fair intendment can be considered as having any legitimate relation to each other.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 295 Ill. App. 3d 182 - People v. Pitts · 306 Ill. App. 3d 665 - People v. Malchow
  3. “`[t]here is no one provision or feature of the act that is challenged as unconstitutional, such that the defect could be remedied by a subsequent amendment which simply deleted or altered that provision or feature.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Wirtz v. Quinn · 222 Ill. 2d 123 - People v. Olender

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.