287 Ill. App. 3d 921 - Amato v. Greenquist’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Scottsdale Insurance v. Flowers (2008), 814 So. 2d 347 - Malicki v. Doe (2002)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 63 Ill. 2d 128 - First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. · 126 Ill. 2d 78 - McGrath v. Fahey · 154 Ill. 2d 1 - Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp. · 143 Ill. 2d 296 - Corgan v. Muehling · 146 Ill. 2d 1 - People Ex Rel. Daley v. Datacom Systems Corp.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nonetheless, when doctrinal controversy is not involved in a dispute between a claimant and a church, the first amendment does not require judicial deference to religious authority. [Citation.] For instance, ‘in disputes over church property, Illinois courts have applied a “neutral principles of law” approach, objectively examining pertinent church characteristics, constitutions and bylaws, deeds, State statutes, and other evidence to resolve the matter the same as it would a secular dispute. [Citation.] Using such an approach, the dispute must be resolved applying neutral legal principles, using purely secular analyses without relying on religious precepts.’ [Citation.]” Amato v. Greenquist, 287 Ill. App. 3d 921, 926 (1997), quoting Bivin v. Wright, 275 Ill. App. 3d 899, 903 , 656 N.E.2d 1121 (1995).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prohibited the recognition of an action for breach of fiduciary duty premised upon the counselling relationship between a cleric and a church member with whom the cleric had been sexually involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we will not determine the jus-ticiability of [plaintiff's] counts based upon the nomenclature used by the plaintiff in entitling the counts”
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.