44 Ill. 2d 233 - Cusack v. Howlett’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority (1988), 177 Ill. 2d 314 - People v. $1,124,905 U.S. Currency (1997)
32 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 Massachusetts v. Mellon · Watkins v. United States · Fergus v. Russel · People ex rel. Hoyne v. McCormick · 37 Ill. 2d 205 - The PEOPLE v. Isaacs
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authority to remove judicial officers by legislative address that was formerly given to the legislative department of the government has now been given to the judicial department, and it is the Supreme Court, as the head of that department, which is now authorized to prescribe standards of judicial conduct. * * * ””
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.