232 Ill. 2d 1 - Burris v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
19 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 158 Ill. 2d 391 - Bonaguro v. the County Officers Electoral Board · 179 Ill. 2d 121 - Noyola v. Bd. of Educ. of City of Chicago · 208 Ill. 2d 457 - People Ex Rel. Madigan v. Snyder · 114 Ill. 2d 504 - Madden v. Cronson · Fekete v. City of East St. Louis
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy to enforce, as a matter of right, the performance of official duties by a public officer where no exercise of discretion on his part is involved. [Citations.] To be entitled to a writ of mandamus , a party must establish a clear right to relief, a clear duty of the public official to act, and a clear authority in the public official to comply with the writ. [Citation.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. Orr
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.