317 Ill. App. 3d 974 - Smith v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 912
Relies on 134 Ill. App. 3d 792 - Lakeview Trust & Savings Bank v. Estrada · State v. Illinois Central Railroad · 304 Ill. App. 3d 153 - Coles-Moultrie Electric Cooperative v. City of Sullivan · 267 Ill. App. 3d 422 - Wilder v. Finnegan · 308 Ill. App. 3d 553 - Young v. Forgas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person, firm, or corporation, assigns, or successors in title and interest to whom or to which title of the United States may have been or may be granted ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hinojos v. Lohmann“[w]e need not consider whether [the Edwards grantees] had title, nor do we need to decide who else might own the right-of-way.”
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.