49 Ill. App. 3d 398 - Cooper v. Illinois Commerce Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2000
11 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 Mills v. Alabama · 38 Ill. 2d 154 - Be-Mac Transport Co. v. Illinois Commerce Commission · 37 Ill. App. 3d 857 - Colaw v. University Civil Service Merit Board · Arrow Transportation Co. v. United States · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Illinois Commerce Commission
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the Commission finds that (1) the proposed purchaser or lessee is fit, willing and able, (2) that the proposed seller or lessor has not abandoned, suspended, or discontinued operations, and (3) that the transaction proposed will be consistent with the public interest and the policy declared in this Chapter and that the conditions of this Section have been or will be fulfilled, it shall enter an order approving and authorizing such transfer, * upon such terms and conditions as it finds to be just and reasonable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““To be sure, dormant services should not be reinstated without a showing of public need. Those opposing such a transaction must establish with some particularity the extent to which their operations might be harmed by approval of the application. This is in accord with relevant Federal authorities. See Be-Mac Transport Co. v. Illinois Commerce Com. and cases cited therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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