4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 13 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 Hartney Fuel Oil Company v. Board of Trustees of the Village of Forest View, etc..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hartney Fuel Oil Company v. Board of Trustees of the Village of Forest View, etc. Anchor | green | “statutory provisions should be read in concert and harmonized.” | 4 |
| 2 | 1940 LLC v. County of McHenry | neutral | “construe a statute as a whole so that no part is rendered meaningless of superfluous.” | 3 |
| 3 | 1940 LLC v. County of McHenry | neutral | “no written warning shall be required for conduct on the part of a teacher or principal that is cruel, immoral, negligent, or criminal or which in any way causes psychological or physical harm or injury to a student as that conduct is deemed to be irremediable” | 3 |
| 4 | Cerone v. State of Illinois | green | “questions in which the historical facts are admitted or established, the rule of law is undisputed, and the issue is whether the facts satisfy the statutory standard, or to put it another way, whether the rule of law as applied to the established facts is or is not violated.” | 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.