Idris v. City of Chicago’s Empirical Analysis
552 F.3d 564 · 2009
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Khan v. Bland (2010), Hayden v. Greensburg Community School Corp. (2014)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Richardson v. Perales · Younger v. Harris · United States v. Boyle · Washington v. Glucksberg · Vance v. Bradley
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]hat [Chicago's electronic traffic law enforcement] system raises revenue does not condemn it. Taxes, whether on liquor or on running red lights, are valid municipal endeavors. Like any other exaction, a fine does more than raise revenue: It also discourages the taxed activity. A system that simultaneously raises money and improves compliance with traffic laws has much to recommend it[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The [United States] Constitution does not demand that units of state government follow state law. A federal court assumes that the action is authorized as a matter of local law and asks only whether federal law forbids what the city or state has done. Whether state law permits that action in the first place is a question for state courts, under their own law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only state action that impinges on fundamental rights is subject to evaluation under substantive due process”); Gikas v. Washington School Dist., 328 F.3d 731 , 733 (3rd Cir.2003) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.