45 Ill. App. 3d 743 - Lynch v. Devine’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority (1988), 188 Ill. 2d 211 - Glisson v. City of Marion (1999)
75 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 Association of Data Processing Service Organizations, Inc. v. Camp · Flast v. Cohen · United States v. Students Challenging Regulatory Agency Procedures (SCRAP) · Schlesinger v. Reservists Committee to Stop the War · United States v. Richardson
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of standing, simply stated, requires that a party seeking relief from the courts must allege some injury in fact to some substantive, legally-protected interest of his, which is a right or interest either recognized by common law or created by statute. (See 59 Am. Jur. 2d Parties §§26-29 (1971).) The doctrine is used to insure that the courts are available to decide actual, specific controversies between the parties and are not overwhelmed in the mire of abstract questions, moot issues, or cases brought on behalf of other parties who do not desire judicial aid. Flast v. Cohen (1968), 392 U.S. 83, 99-100 , 20 L. Ed. 2d 947, 961-62 , 88 S. Ct. 1942 .” See also Fuchs v. Bidwell, 65 Ill. 2d 503 , 359 N.E.2d 158 .”
11 later decisions 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.