188 Ill. App. 3d 163 - Bethune v. Larson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2023
11 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 Hadley v. County of Du Page · 69 Ill. 2d 27 - Kreiser v. Police Board · 40 Ill. App. 3d 436 - Kreiser v. Police Board · 152 Ill. App. 3d 854 - Mateyka v. Schroeder · 104 Ill. 2d 252 - Birk v. Board of Education of Flora Community Unit School District No. 35
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.
““ ‘Agency’ means each officer, board, commission and agency created by the Constitution, whether in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of State government, but other than the circuit court; each officer, department, board, commission, agency, institution, authority, university, body politic and corporate of the State; and each administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the State government which is created by or pursuant to statute, other than units of local government and their officers, school districts and board of election commissioners; each administrative unit or corporate outgrowth of the above and as may be created by executive order of the Governor. However, ‘agency’ does not include: (a) the House of Representatives and Senate, and their respective standing and service comittees; (b) the Governor; and (c) the justices and judges of the Supreme and Appellate Courts. No entity shall be considered an ‘agency’ for the purposes of this Act unless authorized by law to make rules or to determine contested cases.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 127, par. 1003.01.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is an agency of a unit of local government”
1 later decision 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.