218 Ill. 2d 448 - Perlstein v. Wolk’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 223 Ill. 2d 49 - DeLuna v. Burciaga (2006), Edwards v. Allen (2007)
31 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 Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Norton v. Shelby County · 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works · 184 Ill. 2d 290 - River Park, Inc. v. City of Highland Park
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a statute is violative of constitutional guarantees, we have a duty not only to declare such a legislative act void, but also to correct the wrongs wrought through such an act * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“determin[e] whether a particular set of circumstances justifies a court's exercise of its equitable powers to ameliorate the [void ab initio ] doctrine's sometimes harsh results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““ ‘The Delaware Landlord Distress Law has never been adjudged unconstitutional. Therefore, it is clothed by a presumption of constitutionality. [Citations.] The [defendants] in the instant case were entitled to rely upon that presumption of constitutionality and validity, and to act reasonably and in good faith under the provisions of the Law as it then existed. Citizens and public officials have a right to accept the law as it is written until it is repealed or judicially condemned. They are not required to speculate upon the validity of a statute or to act under it at their peril. Until legislatively or judicially excised, a statute is an operative fact. Courts presume every legislative act constitutional and indulge every intendment in favor of validity. No penalty may be visited upon citizens for doing likewise.’ ” Perlstein, 218 Ill. 2d at 463-64 , quoting Downs v. Jacobs, 272 A.2d 706, 707 (Del. 1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.