Fergus v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably 6 Ill. 2d 78 - Wolfson v. Avery (1955), Routt v. Barrett (1947)
60 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 Jones v. O'Connell · Jackson v. Norris
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In Sec. 19 claims under any agreement or contract made by express authority of law are excepted, and, if there is some particular and specific thing which an officer, board or agency of the state was required to do, the performance of the duty is expressly authorized by law.’’”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The General Assembly shall never grant or authorize extra compensation, fee or allowance to any public officer, agent, servant or contractor, after service has been rendered or a contract made, or authorize the payment of any claim, or part thereof, hereafter created against the State under any agreement or contract made without express authority of law; and all such unauthorized agreements or contracts shall be null and void; provided, the General Assembly may make appropriations for expenditures incurred in suppressing insurrection or repelling invasion.” (Ill. Const. 1870, art. IV, sec. 19.) “No officer, institution, department, board, or commission shall contract any indebtedness on behalf of the State, nor assume to bind the State in an amount in excess of the money appropriated, unless expressly authorized by law.” (Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 127, par. 166.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““These provisions of the constitution and statute are clear and unambiguous in terms and their purposes and object cannot be misunderstood. Section 18 prohibits its appropriations in excess of the revenue authorized bylaw to be raised in the period for which appropriations are made, but necessarily revenue, whether derived from one source or- another in the future, must always he estimated and never can be a fixed and certain sum. Circumstances may occur that will cause the reasonable expectations of the General Assembly as to the amount of revenue to miscarry or not to be fulfilled, so that there may be a temporary deficiency. To meet that condition which may arise from failure in making collections of taxes or result from decreased revenue from other sources, the section provides that in case of failure of revenue the General Assembly may contract debts, never to exceed $250,000. This debt is only to be created by borrowing money — not by incurring debts or making contracts — since the section requires that the moneys thus borrowed shall be applied for the purpose for which they were obtained or to pay the debt thus created, and to no other purpose. No other debt can be contracted, except for the purpose of repelling invasion, suppressing insurrection of defending the State in war, except upon a vote of the people at a general election. By section 19 the General Assembly is prohibited from authorizing the payment of any claim, or part thereof, created against the State unde”
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.