199 Ill. 2d 430 - Flynn v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably 204 Ill. 2d 426 - People v. De La Paz (2003), 216 Ill. 2d 402 - Village of Chatham v. County of Sangamon (2005)
43 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 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority · 183 Ill. 2d 482 - People v. Barbara H. · 66 Ill. 2d 371 - Underground Contractors Ass'n v. City of Chicago · People v. W.C. · 196 Ill. 2d 518 - People v. Carney
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Actual’ in this context does not mean that a wrong must have been committed and injury inflicted. Rather, it requires a showing that the underlying facts and issues of the case are not moot or premature, so as to require the court to pass judgment on mere abstract propositions of law, render an advisory opinion, or give legal advice as to future events. [Citations.] The case must, therefore, present a concrete dispute admitting of an immediate and definitive determination of the parties’ rights, the resolution of which will aid in the termination of the controversy or some part thereof.” Underground Contractors Ass’n, 66 Ill. 2d at 375 , 362 N.E.2d at 300 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[did not] even claim that they have given or would like to give a prohibited gift under the [State Gift Ban] Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“controversy between adverse parties and the party seeking the declaratory judgment must be”
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.