Reif v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 128 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 57 Ill. 2d 170 - City of Waukegan v. Pollution Control Board (1974), 39 Ill. 2d 531 - Fiorito v. Jones (1968)
7 federal appellate · 2 district · 128 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Southwestern Oil Company v. State of Texas · Bowman v. Continental Oil Co. · Spreckels Sugar Refining Company v. Penrose a McClain · Clark v. City of Titusville
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`authority to pass rules of law for the government and regulation of people or property.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Except for funds pledged to the retirement of bonds and interest the funds are subject to the legislative will. The funds may be changed, or even abolished, and the funds therein transferred to other accounts or funds.”
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.