112 Ill. App. 3d 293 - Williamson v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 345 Ill. App. 3d 352 - Gerwin v. Livingston County Board (2003), 158 Ill. App. 3d 639 - Ainsworth Corp. v. Cenco Inc. (1987)
22 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 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · 88 Ill. 2d 444 - Murphy v. Urso · 74 Ill. 2d 379 - Saldana v. Wirtz Cartage Co. · Maiter v. Chicago Board of Education · Davis v. Georgia
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as it deems appropriate, including * * * declaring null and void any final action taken at a closed meeting in violation of this Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“permitting the court to declare the action void refers by its terms only to a 'closed session'”
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.