Wolf v. Nazareth Enterprises, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating “the specific words of the statute are the best indicators of the legislative intent behind the enactment”
• “[T]he specific words of the statute are the best indicators of the legislative intent behind the enactment.”
• “No rule of construction authorizes a court to decide that the legislature did not mean what the plain statutory language imports.”
• when the Illinois legislature enacts a statute based upon a federal statute, the Illinois statute can presumably be interpreted in conformance with federal court decisions “rendered prior to the adoption of the statute”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).