Cronson v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 662 · 1987
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Szabo Food Service, Inc. v. Canteen Corp. (1987), Crowley Cutlery Company v. United States of America and Commissioner of Customs of the United States Customs Service (1988)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Paul v. Davis · Allen v. Wright · Hagans v. Lavine · American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois v. City of St. Charles · Schultz v. Baumgart
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is certain that the due process clause does not confer on [the state auditor] a right to conduct a more extensive audit of the Supreme Court of Illinois, and therefore that he has suffered no injury on which this suit might proceed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indignation that the law is not being obeyed ... will [not] support a federal lawsuit.”
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.