227 Ill. 2d 502 - Brucker v. Mercola’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 232 Ill. 2d 463 - Pooh-Bah Enterprises, Inc. v. County of Cook (2009), 228 Ill. 2d 1 - Orlak v. Loyola University Health System (2007)
115 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 223 Ill. 2d 49 - DeLuna v. Burciaga · 85 Ill. 2d 146 - Witherell v. Weimer · 79 Ill. 2d 295 - Anderson v. Wagner · 166 Ill. 2d 188 - Boyd v. Travelers Insurance · 60 Ill. 2d 418 - Borowski v. Von Solbrig
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ll words and phrases must be interpreted in light of other relevant provisions of the statute and must not be construed in isolation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining the General Assembly's intent, we may properly consider not only the language of the statute, but also the purpose and necessity for the law, the evils sought to be remedied, and the goals to be achieved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Each word, clause and sentence of the statute, if possible, must be given reasonable meaning and not rendered superfluous.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.