207 Ill. 2d 82 - Caveney v. Bower’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 229 Ill. 2d 217 - Alvarez v. Pappas (2008), 223 Ill. 2d 286 - People v. Woodrum (2006)
7 federal appellate · 74 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 41
Relies on Landgraf v. USI Film Products · 159 Ill. 2d 469 - Illinois Graphics Co. v. Nickum · 191 Ill. 2d 493 - Michigan Avenue National Bank v. County of Cook · 195 Ill. 2d 506 - People v. Barrow · 201 Ill. 2d 260 - Schultz v. NORTHEAST ILL. REGIONAL COMMUTER RAILROAD CORP.
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“70/4 Rights, etc. saved; criminal cases; application of new law by consent No new law shall be construed to repeal a former law, whether such former law is expressly repealed or not, as to any offense committed against the former law, or as to any act done, any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred, or any right accrued, or claim arising under the former law, or in any way whatever to affect such offense or act so committed or done, or any penalty, forfeiture or punishment so incurred, or any right accrued, or claim arising before the new law takes effect, save only that the proceedings thereafter shall conform, so far as practicable, to the laws in force at the time of such proceeding. If any penalty, forfeiture or punishment be mitigated by any provisions of a new law, such provision may, by the consent of the party affected, be applied to any judgment pronounced after the new law takes effect. This section shall extend to all repeals, either by express words or by implication, whether the repeal is in the act making any new provision upon the same subject dr in any other act.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'would impair rights a party possessed when he acted, increase a party's liability for past conduct, or impose new duties with respect to transactions already completed.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, for purposes of Landgraf 's first step, the legislature always will have clearly indicated the temporal reach of an amended statute, either expressly in the new legislative enactment or by default in section 4 of the Statute on Statutes.”
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.