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222 Ill. 2d 123 - People v. Olender’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
August 2025
most recently cited

7 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 202 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Boclair · People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · 186 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Reedy · 176 Ill. 2d 499 - Johnson v. Edgar · 63 Ill. 2d 1 - People v. Mayberry

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`[t]here is no one provision or feature of the act that is challenged as unconstitutional, such that the defect could be remedied by a subsequent amendment which simply deleted or altered that provision or feature.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “provisions in Public Act 96-34 which clearly violate the intent and purpose of the single subject rule. On the Act's face, all of the provisions have a natural and logical connection to the single subject of capital projects. ¶ 43 Furthermore, a review of the extensive legislative debate preceding the enactment of Public Act 96-34 supports our conclusion that the Act does not violate the single subject clause. Given that the single subject rule is intended to”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “ensures that the legislature addresses the difficult decisions it faces directly and subject to public scrutiny, rather than passing unpopular measures on the backs of popular ones.”
    2 later decisions 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.