22 Ill. 2d 331 - Howard v. Lawton’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably City of Chicago v. International College of Surgeons (1997), Graff v. City of Chicago (1993)
9 federal appellate · 35 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 10 Ill. 2d 178 - Bright v. City of Evanston · 18 Ill. 2d 479 - County of Du Page v. Elmhurst-Chicago Stone Co. · 7 Ill. 2d 313 - Dube v. City of Chicago · 21 Ill. 2d 246 - Osborn v. Village of River Forest · Ronda Realty Corp. v. Lawton
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To hold otherwise would result in piecemeal litigation by first requiring review of an administrative body's decision and then entertaining another action to test constitutionality brought on by such decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We pass upon constitutional issues only where the cause cannot be decided on other grounds.”
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.