361 Ill. App. 3d 484 - Thomas v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Sands v. Whitnall School District (2008), Kosiorek v. Smigelski (2012)
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 Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Nixon · United States v. Morgan · Soucie v. David · Fayerweather v. Ritch
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Confidential communications between judges and between judges and the court’s staff certainly originate in a confidence that they will not be disclosed. Judges frequently rely upon the advice of their colleagues and staffs in resolving cases before them and have a need to confer freely and frankly without fear of disclosure. If the rule were otherwise, the advice that judges receive and their exchange of views may not be as open and honest as the public good requires. In order to protect the effectiveness of the judicial decision-making process, judges cannot be burdened with a suspicion that their deliberations and communications might be made public at a later date.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We believe that the narrowness of the scope of the privilege militates in fávor of holding that it is absolute, rather than qualified. The overriding public good requires that judges be able to confer with each other - and their staffs freely and frankly without fear that their communications might be publicly disclosed. Anything-less than the protection afforded by an absolute privilege would dampen the free exchange of ideas and adversely affect the decision-making process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Our analysis leads us to conclude that there exists a judicial deliberation privilege protecting confidential communications between judges and between judges and the court's staff made in the course of the performance of their judicial duties and relating to official court business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Pacheco v. Hudson
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.