29 Ill. 2d 191 - Dorfman v. Gerber’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority (1988), 103 Ill. 2d 384 - Murdy v. Edgar (1984)
39 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 Investors Syndicate of America, Inc. v. Hughes · 26 Ill. 2d 612 - Bruce v. Department of Registration & Education · Harrison v. Civil Service Commission · People Ex Rel. Woll v. Graber · 14 Ill. 2d 553 - Menning v. Department of Registration & Education
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts have been most careful to avoid encroaching upon the discretionary power lodged in a public officer. That does not mean, however, that they are helpless and that all administrative decisions are sacred and not within reach of the courts. Where an administrative order is against the manifest weight of the evidence, [citations] or the officer had acted arbitrarily and capriciously and thereby abused the discretionary power vested in him, we will not hesitate to intervene. [Citations.]””
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.