233 Ill. 2d 508 - Maddux v. Blagojevich’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 241 Ill. 2d 398 - Goodman v. Ward (2011), 235 Ill. 2d 73 - People Ex Rel. Birkett v. Dockery (2009)
3 federal appellate · 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 621 (§ 2 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on City of New Orleans v. Dukes · Vance v. Bradley · Gregory v. Ashcroft · Leila Jeanne Hill Audrey Himmelmann Everitt Simpsons v. Colorado · 204 Ill. 2d 159 - People v. Donoho
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statute 'is not fatally infirm merely because it may be somewhat underinclusive or overinclusive.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““To interpret the constitution in the manner suggested by the Attorney General is especially problematic because, as we have stated, the constitution acts as a limitation on the General Assembly’s authority. In section 15(a), the drafters gave the legislature the discretion to enact judicial retire ment legislation. Section 11 acts as a limitation on the General Assembly to add to the eligibility of citizens to run for judicial office. We cannot, merely because of section 15(a), read into section 11 an additional eligibility criterion that would impair the rights of people who have never been judges to run for judicial office. In other words, section 15(a), which allows only for the General Assembly to exercise discretion over judicial retirement, cannot be considered a grant of authority to the legislature over matters other than judicial retirement. The constitution acknowledges that the General Assembly may provide for the retirement of judges, which it sought to do under the Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"Void for vagueness is a concept derived from the notice requirement of the due process clause. A statute can be impermissibly vague for either of two independent reasons: (1) if it fails to provide people of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to understand what conduct it prohibits; and (2) if it authorizes or even encourages arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement. [Citations.] As a general rule, a litigant whose conduct falls squarely within a statute's prohibition cannot complain of the vagueness of the law as applied to others. [Citation.] Moreover, in order to succeed on a vagueness challenge that does not involve a first amendment right, a party must establish that the statute is vague as applied to the conduct for which the party is being prosecuted." Maddux v. Blagojevich, 233 Ill.2d 508, 544 , 331 Ill.Dec. 749 , 911 N.E.2d 979 (2009).”
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.