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← 241 Ill. 2d 169 - Johnston v. Weil

241 Ill. 2d 169 - Johnston v. Weil’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
November 2025
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jaffee Special Administrator for Allen Deceased v. Redmond · 181 Ill. 2d 460 - Dowd & Dowd, Ltd. v. Gleason · 158 Ill. 2d 391 - Bonaguro v. the County Officers Electoral Board · 166 Ill. 2d 204 - Bright v. Dicke · 197 Ill. 2d 60 - Norskog v. Pfiel

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

  1. “consistently recognized that the purpose of the Confidentiality Act 'is to preserve the confidentiality of the records and communications of persons who are receiving or who have received mental-health services.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “only applies to situations in which the patient is seeking treatment for a 13 1-14-2918 mental health condition.”
    1 later decision 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.