295 Ill. App. 3d 84 - North v. Hinkle’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 345 Ill. App. 3d 200 - Du Page County Election Commission v. State Board of Elections (2003), 338 Ill. App. 3d 113 - Jenkins v. McIlvain (2003)
26 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 158 Ill. 2d 391 - Bonaguro v. the County Officers Electoral Board · 289 Ill. App. 3d 474 - Cummings v. City of Waterloo · People ex rel. Giese v. Dillon · 288 Ill. App. 3d 57 - Peterson v. Aldi, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is precisely the type of question that can be answered by a facial examination of the papers themselves”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“He is given no discretionary power when a petition proper on its face is filed. His only function is to determine whether, upon the face of the petition, it is in compliance with the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“those whose nominating papers are (1) filed as required by the [Election] Code, (2) in apparent conformity with the Code when filed, and (3) not subject to a duly filed objection.”
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.