18 Ill. 2d 362 - Nott v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 19 Ill. 2d 370 - Sinclair Pipe Line Co. v. Village of Richton Park (1960), 71 Ill. 2d 510 - Pioneer Trust & Savings Bank v. County of Cook (1978)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 12 Ill. 2d 40 - La Salle National Bank v. County of Cook · 7 Ill. 2d 213 - First Nat. Bank of Lake Forest v. County of Lake · 10 Ill. 2d 61 - Jacobson v. City of Evanston · 347 Ill. App. 346 - Deer Park Civic Ass'n v. City of Chicago · 15 Ill. 2d 408 - Fifteen Fifty North State Building Corp. v. City of Chicago
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The substantial change of position by plaintiffs and their obligations incurred in reliance upon the issuance of the permit— based upon the existing zoning ordinance and assurances of village officials — entitles the plaintiffs to the building permit to complete the construction regardless of the amended zoning ordinance.” 18 Ill. 2d 362, 371 .”
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.