75 Ill. 2d 472 - Scanlon v. Faitz’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2019
12 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 21 Ill. 2d 157 - Cities Service Oil Co. v. City of Des Plaines · 18 Ill. App. 3d 248 - Ganley v. City of Chicago · 45 Ill. 2d 378 - White v. Board of Appeals · 27 Ill. App. 3d 454 - City of Marseilles v. Hustis · 17 Ill. App. 2d 171 - Wehrmeister v. Carlman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is qualified, however, to enable a party to invoke the doctrine where his action was induced by the conduct of municipal officers, and where in the absence of such relief he would suffer a substantial loss and the municipality would be permitted to stultify itself by retracting what its agents had done. (City of El Paso v. Hoagland, 224 Ill. 263 ; Hurt v. Hejhal, 259 Ill. App. 221 .)” ( 21 Ill. 2d 157, 161 , 171 N.E.2d 605, 608 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.