Westerhold v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1987
6 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 Owners of Lands v. People ex rel. Stookey · Blake v. People · Updike v. Wright · People Ex Rel. King v. North Fork Outlet Drainage District · Donham v. Joyce
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court’s power to act in a proceeding under section 58 is limited to the purposes specified in the act. It provides a means whereby lands that are not within a drainage district but which will receive benefits from the work of the district may be annexed to and made a part of it. It is purely an annexation proceeding, and, as was held in People ex rel. King v. North Fork Outlet Drainage Dist. 331 Ill. 68 , it cannot be construed as authorizing action which ivould enlarge the district and extend its work beyond what would be required to carry out the purposes of the district as originally constituted.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carls v. Anderson
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.