103 Ill. 2d 384 - Murdy v. Edgar’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
218 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 153 Ill. 2d 76 - Abrahamson v. Illinois Department of Professional Regulation (1992), 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority (1988)
218 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 Fuentes v. Shevin · 65 Ill. 2d 157 - People v. Davis · 47 Ill. 2d 469 - Davern v. Civil Service Commission · 86 Ill. 2d 60 - Eastman Kodak Co. v. Fair Employment Practices Commission · 41 Ill. 2d 7 - The People v. Tassone
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] reviewing court is not to reweigh the evidence or make an independent determination of the facts. Rather, its sole function is to ascertain whether the findings of the administrative agency are contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The Administrative Review Act provides that the findings and conclusions of an administrative agency on questions of fact are considered to be prima facie true and correct. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 110, par. 274.) This statute has been construed to mean that courts may not interfere with the discretionary authority vested in administrative bodies unless that authority is exercised in an arbitrary or capricious manner [citation] or the administrative decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence [citations]. Thus, a reviewing court is not to reweigh the evidence or make an independent determination of the facts. Rather, its sole function is to ascertain whether the findings of the administrative agency are contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.” 103 Ill. 2d 384, 391 , 469 N.E.2d 1085,1088 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"We conclude that the Secretary's determination that plaintiff is a chronic alcoholic is not supported by the evidence. To the contrary, the evidence showed that he recognized the drinking problem and has controlled it." Murdy, 103 Ill.2d at 394 , 83 Ill.Dec. at 156 , 469 N.E.2d at 1090 .”
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.