68 Ill. 2d 142 - Benjamin v. Devon Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2011
21 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 49 Ill. 2d 476 - People Ex Rel. Ogilvie v. Lewis · 57 Ill. 2d 193 - Fuehrmeyer v. City of Chicago · 59 Ill. 2d 38 - People Ex Rel. Kirk v. Lindberg
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"3. Journal Entry and Enrolled Bill Rules — Presently [under the 1870 Constitution] Illinois has the 'journal entry’ rule as distinguished from an 'enrolled bill’ rule. It is proposed that Elinois adopt the 'enrolled bill’ rule. The 'journal entry’ rule means that a piece of legislation can be challenged in the courts by pointing to a defect in its passage as reflected in the journal. Under this rule, a statute duely [sz'c] passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor may be attacked in the courts, not necessarily on its merits, but on some procedural error or technicality found in the legislative process. The 'journal entry’ rule, as a result, leads to complex litigation over procedures and technicalities. The 'enrolled bill’ rule would provide that when the presiding officers of the two houses sign a bill, their signatures become conclusive proof that all constitutional procedures have been properly followed. The 'enrolled bill’ rule would not permit a challenge to a bill on procedural or technical grounds regarding the manner of passage if the bill showed on its face that it was properly passed. Signatures by the presiding officers would, of course, constitute proof that proper procedures were followed. ***.” (Emphasis added.) (6 Proceedings 1386-87.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“placed an additional limitation on the location of a branch office, and this cannot be done in an appropriation bill.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“agree[d] that the General Assembly may restrict and qualify the use to which funds appropriated may be put”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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