51 Ill. 2d 478 - Grace v. Howlett’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

cited by 61 later decisions

states following

August 2023

most recently cited

2 district · 58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997), 79 Ill. 2d 295 - Anderson v. Wagner (1979)

2 district · 58 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 Dandridge v. Williams · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. · Richardson v. Belcher

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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[T]he fact that a problem `does exist does not permit arbitrary or unrelated means of meeting it to be adopted.' . . . [T]his court cannot rule that the legislature is free to enact special legislation simply because `reform may take one step at a time.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. Rudolph v. Iowa Methodist Medical Center · 82 Ill. 2d 116 - Illinois Housing Development Authority v. Van Meter
““The General Assembly shall pass no special or local law when a general law is or can be made applicable. Whether a general law is or can be made applicable shall be a matter for judicial determination.” (Ill. Const. 1970, art. IV, §13.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. People ex rel. East Side Levee & Sanitary District v. Madison County Levee & Sanitary District · Little v. East Lake Fork Special Drainage District
“"We do not think there is any substantial difference between the provisions incorporated in the three constitutions. The right of trial by jury was the same under one constitution as under the other. The right protected by each constitution was the right of trial by jury as it existed at common láw.” George v. People (1897), 167 Ill. 447, 455 . As this court has more recently noted: "for the true”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. 163 Ill. 2d 33 - Martin v. Heinold Commodities, Inc.

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.