86 Ill. App. 3d 708 - Smith v. County Board’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2001
17 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 40 - La Salle National Bank v. County of Cook · 29 Ill. App. 3d 782 - Solomon v. City of Evanston · 12 Ill. 2d 537 - Myers v. City of Elmhurst · Welsh v. Jakstas · 12 Ill. App. 3d 589 - First Nat. Bk. of Skokie v. Vil. of Morton Grove
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the testimony before the lower court in a bench trial, as here, is contradictory, the weight to be given testimony is a matter for the trial court, and the court’s judgment will not be disturbed unless manifestly against the weight of the evidence.” Smith v. County Board (1980), 86 Ill. App. 3d 708, 716 , 408 N.E.2d 452, 460 .”
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.