People v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2000 · most notably 65 Ill. 2d 543 - Walker v. State Board of Elections (1976), Leek v. Theis (1975)
2 district · 27 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 People ex rel. Grinnell v. Hoffman · Williams v. People · People ex rel. Dunham v. Morgan · Kettles v. People · State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Burns
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was clearly the intention of the framers of this constitutional provision that the appointing power, in cases of all offices established by the constitution or created by law, should be vested in the Governor, unless the appointment or election to such offices is otherwise provided for by the constitution or by statutory enactment.” (Emphasis added.) Evans, 247 Ill. at 556 .”
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.