104 Ill. App. 3d 885 - Johnson v. MacOn County Board’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 49 Cal. 2d 409 - People v. McCaughan · 27 Ill. 2d 357 - Fantozzi v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners · Holmes v. Osborn · Petraitis v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners · 52 Ill. App. 3d 494 - Hardaway v. Civil Service Commission
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any county superintendent of highways may be removed from office by the county board for incompetence, neglect of duty or malfeasance in office. In any proceeding to remove a county superintendent of highways from office a petition shall be filed with the county board naming such officer as respondent and setting forth the particular facts upon which the request for removal is based. The county board shall set the matter for hearing not earlier than 5 days after service upon the respondent, which service shall be the same as in civil actions. The county board shall thereupon proceed to a determination of the charges and shall enter an order either dismissing the charge against the county superintendent of highways or removing him from office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[M]alfeasance, as a ground for removal of a public officer, generally must have reference to evil conduct or an illegal deed or the performance of an act by an officer in his official capacity that is wholly illegal or wrongful.” 104 Ill. App. 3d 885, 891 , 433 N.E.2d 707, 711 .”
1 later decision 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.