46 Ill. 2d 538 - Schilb v. Kuebel’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably Schilb v. Kuebel (1972), 71 Ill. 2d 563 - Kujawinski v. Kujawinski (1978)
26 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Giaccio v. State of Pennsylvania · Reif v. Barrett · 43 Ill. 2d 36 - Thorpe v. Mahin · 12 Ill. 2d 588 - Smith v. Hill
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we know of no law or constitutional provision which would preclude [criminal defendants] being required to pay a reasonable amount for the privilege extended to those who elect to come into this class. The requirement of a fee to help defray the cost of administrative services in the courts is a traditional and basic concept recognized as valid by this court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Historically many fees and charges for the services of court officers have been fixed in proportion to the amount involved.... [Percentage] rates are also found in the field of taxation, as defendants suggest, including income taxes, retailers' occupation taxes, real-estate taxes, use taxes, and inheritance and transfer taxes."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“has no bearing whatever on bond costs and the retention of a percentage of such costs is not tantamount to the assessment of court costs against a discharged defendant.”
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.