194 Ill. 2d 493 - Johnson v. Halloran’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2022
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Landgraf v. USI Film Products · 18 Ill. 2d 11 - Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 · 171 Ill. 2d 378 - Barnett v. Zion Park District · 181 Ill. 2d 335 - Harinek v. 161 North Clark Street Ltd. Partnership · 184 Ill. 2d 504 - City of Chicago v. Roman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By statute, the office of public defender is created in the Counties Code, and the public defender systems in Illinois are organized and operated at the county level. In counties with a population over 1 million, which Cook County has, the public defender is appointed by the president of the county board of commissioners with the board’s advice and consent. The board sets the rate of compensation for the public defender and the public defender’s assistants, clerks and employees, and that compensation is paid out of the county treasury. The board is also responsible for providing suitable office quarters for the public defender and for paying, from the county treasury, necessary office, travel and other expenses incurred by the public defender in the defense of cases. The power to remove the public defender is vested in the president of the county board where, as here, the population of the county exceeds 1 million. In addition, section 5-1003 of the Counties Code provides that the county is required to indemnify the public defender or assistant public defenders for any judgment rendered against them for any injury to person or property they cause while engaged in the performance of their duties, except where the injury results from willful misconduct. Based upon the foregoing provisions, the office of public defender must be regarded as a county office rather than as an agency of the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“possess the same powers as the state government, except where such powers are limited by the General Assembly.”
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.