52 Ill. App. 3d 550 - Eble v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2012
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 12 Ill. 2d 190 - Oakdale Community Consolidated School District No. 1 v. County Board of School · 62 Ill. App. 2d 467 - Wheeler v. County Board of School Trustees · 25 Ill. App. 2d 503 - Burnidge v. County Board of School Trustees · 106 Ill. App. 2d 439 - OTTAWA TP. HS DIST. NO. 140 v. County Board of School Trustees of LaSalle County · Bowman v. County Board of School Trustees
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The county board of school trustees shall hear evidence as to the school needs and conditions of the territory in the area within and adjacent thereto and as to the ability of the districts affected to meet the standards of recognition as prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and shall take into consideration the division of funds and assets which will result from the change of boundaries and shall determine whether it is to the best interests of the schools of the area and the educational welfare of the pupils that such change in boundaries be granted, and in case non-high school territory is contained in the petition the normal high school attendance pattern of the children shall be taken into consideration.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[M]uch more is needed to support a change in established boundaries than the personal desires or convenience of the petitioner. The welfare of the affected districts and their pupils as a whole must control rather than the wishes of a few, and petitions should be granted only where the benefits derived by the annexing and affected areas clearly outweighs the detriment resulting to the losing district and the surrounding community as a whole.” (Emphasis in original.) 52 Ill. App. 3d at 553-54.”
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.