127 Ill. App. 2d 192 - Vanderbilt v. Marcin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2006
13 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ “[M]ere technical statutory duties relating to elections [generally] will, after the election, be held to be directory only and a failure to comply therewith will not invalidate the election if such failure does not affect the fairness or merits thereof, nor obstruct nor prevent a free and intelligent vote of the people and ascertainment of the result.” ’ ” Foster, 176 Ill. App. 3d at 779 , 531 N.E.2d at 922 , quoting Vanderbilt v. Marcin, 127 Ill. App. 2d 192, 197 , 262 N.E.2d 42, 44 (1970), quoting People ex rel. Earley v. Bierman, 249 Ill. App. 217, 220-21 (1928).”
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.