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  • The PEOPLE v. Carter

    38 Ill. 2d 496 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 30, 1967

    Defendant relies heavily on People v. Lewis, 34 Ill.2d 211 . Lewis was carefully re-examined in People v. Jones, ante, p. 427, and People v. Brown, ante, p. 453, both decided this term. … See People v. Brown, 26 Ill.2d 308 ; 2 Wigmore on Evidence 3rd ed. secs. 304, 363, and 413.

    Cited 40 timesPublished
  • Hamsher v. Hamsher

    8 L.R.A. 556 · Illinois Supreme Court · Mar 31, 1890

    (Alexander v. Tolleston Club, 110 Ill. 65 .) … (Hayward v. Davidson, 41 Ind. 214 ).

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Jersey Ice Cream Co. v. Industrial Commission

    309 Ill. 187 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 20, 1923

    (Chicago Daily News Co. v. Industrial Com. 306 Ill. 212 ; Ohio Building Vault Co. v. Industrial Board, 277 id. 96.) … (Peterson & Co. v. Industrial Board, 281 Ill. 326 ; Ohio Building Vault Co. v. Industrial Board, supra; Swift & Co. v. Industrial Com. 302 Ill. 38 ; Decatur Construction Co. v. Industrial Com. 296 id. 290; Perkinson v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Eggleston v. Buck

    31 Ill. 254 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1863

    Austin v. The People, 11 Ill. 452 ; Toles v. Cole, id. 562 . … Brown v. Clary, 1 Haywood, 107. The judgment is reversed. Judgment reversed.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • People ex rel. Patterson v. Fifer

    280 Ill. 506 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 23, 1917

    , acting on the relation of some 122 relators, was denied leave by the circuit court of said county to file an information in the nature of qito warranto against the respondents, who are the president and members of the board … (People v. Wisconsin Central Railroad Co. 219 Ill. 94 ; People v. City of Rock Island, 271 id. 412; People v. Militzer, 272 id. 387; People v. Peltier, 275 id. 217.) The case of People v.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Winnetka Park District v. Brandl

    301 Ill. 265 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 22, 1921

    (City of Waukegan v. Burnett, 234 Ill. 460 ; City of Chicago v. Kemp, 240 id. 56; Village of River Forest v. Cummings, 261 id. 228.) … (City of Peoria v. Ohl, 209 Ill. 52 .)

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Mayfield v. Forsyth

    164 Ill. 32 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 10, 1896

    (Sheldon v. Harding, 44 Ill. 68 ; Holmes v. Holmes, 44 id. 168 .) … Beach v. Shaw, 57 Ill. 17 ; Owen v. Peacock, 38 id. 33 ; Carpenter v. Carpenter, 70 id. 457; Brown v. Brown, 154 id. 35; Quayle v. Guild, 91 id. 378; McDearmon v. Burnham, 158 id. 55.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • People v. Garcia

    199 Ill. 2d 401 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 18, 2002

    (footnote: 1) Because a judicial opinion is authority only for what is actually decided ( Board of Governors of State Colleges & Universities for Chicago State University v. … There is a cogent policy against overruling cases by implication ( Anderson v. Brown , 340 Ill. App. 613, 622 (1950)), and we would have had no reason to depart from that policy with respect to Matkovick or Haron.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Grant Contracting Co. v. Murphy

    387 Ill. 137 · Illinois Supreme Court · May 16, 1944

    Oak Woods Cemetery Ass’n v. Murphy, 383 Ill. 301 ; Shore Fishery, Inc. v. Board of Review, 127 N. J. L. 87, 21 Atl. 2d 634. … Appellees cite as controlling, the cases of Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co. v. State Unemployment Compensation Com. 168 Ore. 614 , 126 Pac. 2d 37 ; Shore Fishery, Inc. v. Board of Review, 127 N. J.

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Cutinello v. Whitley

    161 Ill. 2d 409 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 1, 1994

    Scott v. … Retirement Board v. Fritz (1980), 449 U.S. 166, 179 , 66 L. Ed. 2d 368, 378 , 101 S. Ct. 453, 461 ; McDonald v. Board of Election Commissioners (1969), 394 U.S. 802, 809 , 22 L. Ed. 2d 739, 745-46 , 89 S.

    Cited 86 timesPublished
  • People Ex Rel. School Directors of School District No. 36 v. Elliott

    320 Ill. 152 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 18, 1926

    The joint board of school directors has no discretion concerning the matter. … In People v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • People ex rel. Smith v. McElroy

    248 Ill. 574 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 25, 1911

    (Fairfield v. People, 94 Ill. 244 ; King v. City of Chicago, 111 id. 63.) In King v. … (Chicago and Alton Railroad Co. v. People, 190 Ill. 20 ; People v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co. 201 id. 365; Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Co. v. People, 205 id. 582; People v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Adams v. Burke

    201 Ill. 395 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 18, 1903

    The board of directors consisted of five persons, and Adams and Burke were always two, while the other three were always employees of the corporation, each supposed to represent one share of stock. … (McNulta v. Corn Belt Bank, 164 Ill. 427 ; Cook on Stock and Stockholders, sec. 657.)

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Mix v. People ex rel. Pierpont

    72 Ill. 241 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1874

    O'Kene v. Treat, 25 Ill. 557 ; Briscoe v. Allison, 43 ib. 291; State of Illinois v. Allen, ib. 456; Allen v. Peoria and Bureau Valley Railroad Co. 44 ib. 85; The People v. Nichols, 49 ib. 517. … In Cowgill v.

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • People v. Boyle

    312 Ill. 586 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 17, 1924

    (People v. Butler Street Foundry Co. supra; Brown v. Walker, 161 U. S. 591 .) In Regina v. … People v. Butler Street Foundry Co. supra; Brown v. Walker, supra; Counselman v. Hitchcock, 142 U. S. 547 .

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • People ex rel. City of Chicago v. Barrett

    309 Ill. 53 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jun 20, 1923

    (People v. Smith, 94 Ill. 226 . To the same effect are 37 Cyc. 724, and 29 id. 1431. See, also, the reasoning in Wheeler v. County of Wayne, 132 Ill. 599 , and People v. Kent, 300 id. 324.) … Co. v.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • City of Chicago v. Sachs

    1 Ill. 2d 342 · Illinois Supreme Court · Nov 18, 1953

    Under the terms of the ordinance, uses permissible in such districts include grade or high school, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, hotel, hospital, home for dependents or nursing home, boarding school, vocational … (Catholic Bishop of Chicago v. Kingery, 371 Ill. 257 .)

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • McLaughlin v. City of Chicago

    198 Ill. 518 · Illinois Supreme Court · Oct 25, 1902

    The record shows that on the 15th day of January, 1900, the board of local improvements submitted to the city council, and recommended that it be passed, an ordinance for said improvement, together with an estimate of the … The appellant relies upon the case of Bass v. City of Chicago, 195 Ill. 109 , in support of the 'view that the ordinance is void.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Kamerer v. Kamerer

    281 Ill. 587 · Illinois Supreme Court · Dec 19, 1917

    (Brown v. Kamerer, 276 Ill. 69 .) In accordance with the decision of this court the administratrix filed her petition alleging that Lewis A. … The will of Andrew Kamerer was construed in Brown v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • In Re Peel

    126 Ill. 2d 397 · Illinois Supreme Court · Feb 2, 1989

    (See Bates v. State Bar (1977), 433 U.S. 350 , 53 L. Ed. 2d 810 , 97 S. Ct. 2691 .) … (Zauderer v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel (1985), 471 U.S. 626, 630-33 , 85 L. Ed. 2d 652, 659-61 , 105 S. Ct. 2265, 2271-72 .)

    Cited 2 timesPublished

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