363 Ill. App. 3d 47 - Ropiy v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2026
11 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 188 Ill. 2d 211 - Glisson v. City of Marion · 71 Ill. 2d 510 - Pioneer Trust & Savings Bank v. County of Cook · 179 Ill. 2d 121 - Noyola v. Bd. of Educ. of City of Chicago · 16 Ill. 2d 183 - People Ex Rel. Skokie Town House Builders, Inc. v. Village of Morton Grove · 166 Ill. App. 3d 709 - De Kalb Bank v. Purdy
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[W]here there has been a substantial change of position, expenditures or incurrence of obligations made in good faith by an innocent party under a building permit or in reliance upon the probability of its issuance, such party has a vested property right and he may complete the construction and use the premises for the purposes originally authorized, irrespective of subsequent zoning or a change in zoning classification.’ ” Pioneer Trust, 71 Ill. 2d at 522-23 , 377 N.E.2d at 26 , quoting People ex rel. Skokie Town House Builders, Inc. v. Village of Morton Grove, 16 Ill. 2d 183, 191 , 157 N.E.2d 33, 36 (1959).”
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.