18 Ill. 2d 400 - Scribner v. Sachs’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably 65 Ill. 2d 366 - People Ex Rel. Gibson v. Cannon (1976), 73 Ill. 2d 58 - Wilbon v. D. F. Bast Co. (1978)
33 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 Behrensmeyer v. Kreitz · 14 Ill. 2d 243 - City of East St. Louis v. Touchette · Tuthill v. Rendelman · Neff v. George · Parker v. Orr
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to the marking of a ballot, we have consistently followed the holding in Parker v. Orr, 158 Ill. 609 , decided in 1895," that the “X” used in directing the manner of voting is "merely directory as to the exact form of cross to be used, but that an honest attempt to make a mark which resembles a cross must appear on the ballot. No case is cited, nor do we find one, which holds to the contrary.””
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.