66 Ill. 2d 242 - Johnson v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2023
24 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 28 Ill. 2d 199 - Skaggs v. Junis · 59 Ill. 2d 439 - Davis v. City of Chicago · 58 Ill. 2d 284 - Bender v. City of Chicago · 64 Ill. App. 2d 1 - Stickler v. McCarthy · 37 Ill. 2d 48 - Stickler v. McCarthy
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record on appeal does not contain a report of proceedings or any record in lieu thereof as provided by Supreme Court Rule 323(c) and (d). (58 Ill. 2d R. 323(c), (d).) As gathered from the plaintiff’s brief * * * and the absence of a statement in the order indicating that the court heard evidence, it is apparent no testimony was heard by the court on plaintiff’s petition to adjudicate the Department’s charge. The trial court must have reached its decision based on the information contained in the plaintiff’s pleadings, answers to interrogatories, and argument of counsel. Thus, the trial court’s statement that it was ‘fully advised in the premises’ does not give rise to the presumption that adequate evidence was heard, as there are contrary indications in the record. Stickler v. McCarthy (1965), 64 Ill. App. 2d 1,20-21 , rev’d on other grounds (1967), 37 Ill. 2d 48 ; see Skaggs v. Junis (1963), 28 Ill. 2d 199, 201-02 , wherein evidence was taken but not recorded, and the trial court’s order included a statement that evidence was heard.””
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.