98 Ill. 2d 87 - McKenzie v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 158 Ill. 2d 391 - Bonaguro v. the County Officers Electoral Board (1994), Carter v. Berger (1985)
4 federal appellate · 75 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 J. Gordon Turnbull, Inc. v. Commissioner · Boone v. Lightner · Cappaert v. United States · 39 Ill. 2d 149 - Methodist Old Peoples Home v. Korzen · 36 Ill. 2d 556 - Illinois Crime Investigating Commission v. Buccieri
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“property of the State, units of local government and school districts and property used exclusively for agricultural and horticultural societies, and for school, religious, cemetery and charitable purposes.” (Ill. Const. 1970, art. IX, § 6.) This limited power to grant exemption from taxation”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[A] parsonage qualifies for an exemption [under Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 120, par. 500.2] if it reasonably and substantially facilitates the aims of religious worship or religious instruction because the pastor’s religious duties require him to live in close proximity to the church or because the parsonage has unique facilities for religious worship and instruction or is primarily used for such purposes.” (Emphasis added.) (McKenzie v. Johnson (1983), 98 Ill. 2d 87, 99 , 456 N.E.2d 73, 79 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““[P]roperty satisfies the exclusive-use requirement of the property tax exemption statutes if it is primarily used for the exempted purpose; ‘[i]f property is devoted, in a primary sense, to a religious purpose, the fact that it is incidentally used for secular purposes will not destroy the exemption.’ ” (Emphasis in original.) McKenzie, 98 Ill. 2d at 98 , quoting First Congregational Church v. Board of Review, 254 Ill. 220, 224 (1912).”
2 later decisions 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.