Williamson v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 64 Ill. 2d 576 - Pechous v. Slawko · Citizens Committee to Recall Rizzo v. Board of Elections · 57 Ill. 2d 50 - Clarke v. Village of Arlington Heights · Hilzinger v. Gillman · 43 Tenn. App. 567 - Roberts v. Brown
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The 1970 Constitution gives home rule units broad legislative powers and states that those powers are to be construed liberally. [Citation.] Consequently, a home rule unit could enact a valid recall ordinance. Non-home rule units such as the city of Northlake do not have such power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A recall procedure, however, is a manner of 'de-selection' and does not comfortably fit within any of [the] three categories of section 7(3) *** .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an even-handed recall statute would have been constitutional under [both] the 1870 [and 1970] Constitution[s].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.