120 Ill. App. 2d 411 - Lenit v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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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.

1. ““However, despite a clear right to a writ of mandamus, the court, in view of the consequences accompanying its issuance, did not abuse its discretion in denying the petition. A meeting was not necessary to promote substantial justice; the occurrences at a meeting might have directly interfered with another judicial proceeding then pending and there might have been confusion and disorder.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 89 Ill. App. 3d 874 - Nugent v. Collins