7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 29 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Afl-Cio (Afscme) v. Dept. of Cent. Mgt..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Afl-Cio (Afscme) v. Dept. of Cent. Mgt. Anchor | green | “whether the arbitrator's award, as reflected in his interpretation of the agreement, violated the public policy.” | 8 |
| 2 | Braye v. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. | green | “statutes and laws in existence at the time a contract is executed are considered part of the contract,” | 5 |
| 3 | Grevas v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. | green | “courts and legal scholars have long recognized that, where both a general and a specific provision in a contract address the same subject, the more specific clause controls.” | 4 |
| 4 | Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 508 v. Burris | green | “an appropriation involves 'the setting apart from public revenue a certain sum of money for a specific object.” | 3 |
| 5 | State v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees | neutral | “cannot pay the full amount of the wage increases at this time, but has not established that it cannot pay a lesser amount of the wage increases pursuant to its contractual obligations to do so.” | 3 |
| 6 | Illinois State Bar Association Mutual Insurance Company v. Law Office of Tuzzolino and Terpinas | green | “to grant public employees full freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing for the purpose of negotiating wages, hours and other conditions of employment or other mutual aid or protection.” | 3 |
| 7 | In re Pension Reform Litigation | green | “that particular scrutiny of legislative action is warranted when, as here, a state seeks to impair a contract to which it is itself a party and its interest in avoiding the contract or changing its terms is financial” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.