Forest Preserve District v. Eckhoff’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably 20 Ill. 2d 512 - City of Evanston v. Piotrowicz (1960), United States v. 5139.5 Acres of Land (1952)
13 federal appellate · 38 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 City of Chicago v. Collin · Forest Preserve District v. Chilvers · South Park Commissioners v. Livingston · City of Mt. Olive v. Braje · Jacksonville & Savanna Railroad v. Kidder
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * a person may be compelled by force of circumstances to part with property which he might desire to hold, but involuntary sales imply compulsion under a decree, execution or something more than inability to pay upkeep charges. * * *.” Id. at 54.”
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.