77 Ill. 2d 423 - Roth v. Yackley’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 229 Ill. 2d 421 - O'Casek v. Children's Home & Aid Society (2008), Chevron Chemical Co. v. Superior Court (1982)
4 federal appellate · 78 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 Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Sunal v. Large · 71 Ill. 2d 166 - People v. Nicholls · Sunal v. Large · 8 Ill. 2d 293 - Belfield v. Coop
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is logically difficult to perceive how the declaration and the amendments by the 80th General Assembly can be simply a clarification of the intent of the 77th General Assembly which originally enacted the statute seven years earlier since only a fraction of the individuals who comprised the General Assembly were the same at both times.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The General Assembly declares that the changes made by this amendatory Act *** are declaratory of existing law and are therefore applicable in relation to events which occurred before the effective date of this amendatory Act. The ‘terms and conditions’ of probation as specified in this amendatory Act are declared to be reasonable terms and conditions for probation under the affected Sections as those Sections were in effect before the effective date of this amendatory Act.” Pub. Act 80-1202, sec. 3, eff. June 30, 1978.”
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.