25 Ill. 2d 128 - Berger v. Howlett’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably 97 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Alejos (1983), 29 Ill. 2d 268 - Bowman v. County of Lake (1963)
39 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 3 Ill. 2d 539 - People Ex Rel. Gutknecht v. City of Chicago · 11 Ill. 2d 125 - People Ex Rel. Adamowski v. Public Building Commission · Loomis v. Keehn · People Ex Rel. Greening v. Green · 14 Ill. 2d 230 - People Ex Rel. Adamowski v. Chicago Railroad Terminal Authority
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * that the fact that the General Assembly will appropriate money during its regular sessions to pay rent does not create a debt; and that the statutory provisions authorizing a pledge of the income and property of Authority, the sole sources to which the bondholders may look, does not create a debt against the State, * * * The charges, fees or rentals to be established by the Authority are limited to amounts sufficient at all times to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds and cost of maintenance. Here the act provides that leases to the State or its agencies shall provide that the rents shall be payable from appropriations made by the General Assembly at each session for such purpose, and, in case such rental is unpaid, it is entirely clear that no claim is preserved against the State inasmuch as the Authority is given the power to lease the building or facility to others for any suitable purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McFarland v. Barron“Assuming that the act in some ways permits the State to lend its aid or credit to the Authority, the furnishing of adequate office facilities for State government is a public purpose and a proper expenditure of State funds.”
1 later decision 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.