76 Ill. 2d 107 - Lopez v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 142 Ill. 2d 54 - Fumarolo v. Chicago Board of Education (1990), Maiter v. Chicago Board of Education (1980)
26 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 Buckley v. Valeo · Paul v. Davis · 34 Ill. 2d 495 - Droste v. Kerner · 62 Ill. 2d 184 - Troman v. Wood · Illinois Central Co 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Public funds, property or credit shall be used only for public purposes. (b) The State, units of local government and school districts shall incur obligations for payment or make payments from public funds only as authorized by law or ordinance. (c) Reports and records of the obligation, receipt and use of public funds of the State, units of local government and school districts are public records available for inspection by the public according to law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.