30 Ill. 2d 11 - Williams v. Kerner’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2017
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Colegrove v. Green · Smiley v. Holm · Wright v. United States · Fergus v. Russel · Edwards v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘General acquiescence cannot justify departure from the law, but long and continuous interpretation in the course of official action under the law may aid in removing doubts as to its meaning. This is especially true in the case of constitutional provisions governing the exercise of political rights and hence subject to constant and careful scrutiny.’ ” Williams, 30 Ill. 2d at 15 , quoting Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355, 369 , 76 L. Ed. 795, 801-02 , 52 S. Ct. 397, 400 (1931).”
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.