66 Ill. 2d 443 - Snow v. Dixon’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 171 Ill. 2d 378 - Barnett v. Zion Park District (1996), 93 Ill. 2d 299 - Moehle v. Chrysler Motors Corp. (1982)
61 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 Aaron Cooley v. The Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia to the Use of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Pilots Their Widows and Children Same · New York Central Securities Corp. v. United States · Thomas v. Railroad Co. · Schwabacher v. United States · Thompson Willson v. The Black Bird Creek Marsh Company
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An action to restrain and enjoin the disbursement of public funds by any officer or officers of the State government may be maintained either by the Attorney General or by any citizen and taxpayer of the State.”
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.