91 Ill. App. 3d 382 - Coles v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2023
15 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 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act)
Relies on United States Civil Service Commission v. National Ass'n of Letter Carriers · Raymond E. Trafelet v. James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois · Trafelet v. Thompson · 67 Ill. 2d 413 - Friedman & Rochester, Ltd. v. Walsh · 67 Ill. 2d 165 - Anderson v. Schneider
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person convicted on an infamous crime as such term is defined in Section 124 — 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, as amended, shall thereafter be prohibited from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit, unless such person is again restored to such rights by the terms of a pardon for the offense or otherwise according to law.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 46, par. 29 — 15.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A person convicted of a felony, bribery, perjury or other infamous crime shall be ineligible to hold an office created by this Constitution.” (Ill. Const. 1970, art. XIII, sec. 1.)”
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.