77 Ill. 2d 287 - Polyvend, Inc. v. Puckorius’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp. (1987), 88 Ill. 2d 279 - Scott v. Association for Childbirth at Home, International (1981)
12 federal appellate · 92 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 714 · 5 U.S.C. § 551 (Administrative Procedure Act of 1946)
Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Mathews v. Eldridge · Wolff v. McDonnell · Goldberg v. Kelly · Perry v. Sindermann
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Absolute criteria whereby every detail necessary in the enforcement of a law is anticipated need not be established by the General Assembly. The constitution merely requires that intelligible standards be set to guide the agency charged with enforcement ***.” Hill v. Relyea (1966), 34 Ill. 2d 552, 555 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““No person or business entity shall be awarded a contract or subcontract if that person or business entity: (a) has been convicted of bribery or attempting to bribe an officer or employee of the State of Illinois in that officer or employee’s official capacity; or (b) has made an admission of guilt of such conduct which is a matter of record but has not been prosecuted for such conduct. For purposes of this Section, where an official, agent, or employee of a business entity committed the bribery or attempted bribery on behalf of such an entity and pursuant to the direction or authorization of a responsible official thereof, the business entity shall be chargeable with the conduct.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 127, par. 132.10—1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Property interests, of course, are not created by the Constitution. Rather, they are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law — rules or understandings that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.” ( 408 U.S. 564, 577 , 33 L. Ed. 2d 548, 561 , 92 S. Ct. 2701, 2709 .)”
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.