113 Ill. App. 3d 975 - Larson v. Darnell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 167 Ill. 2d 466 - Snyder v. Curran Township (1995), 141 Ill. App. 3d 266 - Barth v. Board of Education of City of Chicago (1986)
34 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 Rieser v. District of Columbia · 65 Ill. 2d 485 - People Ex Rel. Scott v. Briceland · 68 Ill. 2d 223 - Mora v. State · Luther W. White, Iii, Administrator, C.T.A. Of the Estate of Donald E. Meeks v. United States · Payton v. United States
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those which a person performs on a given state of facts in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, and without reference to the official's discretion as to the propriety of the act.”
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.