Lopez v. Dart’s Empirical Analysis
2018
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ryder v. United States · 38 Ill. 2d 223 - Hux v. Raben · 225 Ill. 2d 497 - Marconi v. Chicago Heights Police Pension Board · State v. Carroll · 182 Ill. 2d 262 - Texaco-Cities Service Pipeline Co. v. McGaw
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“circumvent the upheaval that would doubtlessly result if we were to invalidate the Merit Board's decision, and invite hundreds of plaintiffs to seek invalidation of all the decisions rendered by the illegally constituted panel during Rosales's unauthorized term.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“of such proceedings, federal courts and, later, our supreme court relaxed the de facto officer doctrine to permit a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not the first claimant to have brought the illegal appointment of Rosales to light,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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