52 Ill. 2d 472 - People v. Palkes’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably 63 Ill. 2d 165 - Kobylanski v. Chicago Board of Education (1976), 61 Ill. 2d 494 - Davis v. Commonwealth Edison Co. (1975)
72 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · United States v. Biswell · Louis Weber v. United States
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ° 0 a legislative classification based upon population will be sustained where founded on a rational difference of situation or condition existing in the persons or objects upon which it rests and there is a reasonable basis for the classification in view of the objects and purposes to be accomplished. [Citations.]’ * # 0 Furthermore, we will presume that the legislature surveyed the conditions existing in the population centers of this State and pursued the various means available to the General Assembly not available to this court in informing itself of these conditions before enacting a classification based on population. This court will nullify such a classification only when it can be said that the same is ‘clearly unreasonable or palpably arbitrary.’ [Citations.] Another established principle applicable to this case holds that those who attack the validity of the classification have the burden of proving that the same is unreasonable or arbitrary.” (People v. Palkes, 52 Ill. 2d 472, 477 (1972).)”
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.