Reid v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably County Council v. Investors Funding Corp. (1973), 57 Ill. 2d 170 - City of Waukegan v. Pollution Control Board (1974)
22 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 Atkin v. State of Kansas · Fergus v. Russel · Ritchie v. People · The People v. Federal Surety Co. · Holden v. City of Alton
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.
“"* * * upon such bodies contrary to article 3 of the constitution. [Citations.] The fact that an appeal is provided from the decision of the awarding body or Department of Labor in so declaring a forfeiture, does not justify one department of government exercising powers belonging to another. [Citations.]" (375 Ill. at 152.)”
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.