131 Ill. App. 3d 489 - Sheldon v. Edgar’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 252 Ill. App. 3d 514 - E.J. McKernan Co. v. Gregory (1993), 147 Ill. App. 3d 723 - Sutton v. Edgar (1986)
28 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 Federal Communications Commission v. League of Women Voters of California · 103 Ill. 2d 384 - Murdy v. Edgar · 119 Ill. App. 3d 648 - O'Boyle v. Personnel Board, City of Chicago · 64 Ill. 2d 183 - People v. Turner · 105 Ill. App. 3d 437 - Nendza v. BD. OF REVIEW OF DEPT. OF LABOR
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Administrative Review Act provides that the findings and conclusions of an administrative agency on questions of fact are considered to be prima facie true and correct. [Citation.] This statute has been construed to mean that courts may not interfere with the discretionary authority vested in administrative bodies unless that authority is exercised in an arbitrary or capricious manner [citation] or the administrative decision is against the manifest weight of the evidence [citations]. *** [A court’s] sole function is to ascertain whether the findings of the administrative agency are contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[0]ur sole function here is to ascertain whether the final decision of the administrative agency is just and reasonable in light of the evidence presented.” Sheldon v. Edgar (1985), 131 Ill. App. 3d 489, 491 , 475 N.E.2d 956, 957 .”
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.