County Collector of County of Winnebago Illinois O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.3d 890 · 1996
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably In re Brand Name Prescription Drugs Antitrust Litigation (1997), People Who Care v. Rockford Board of Education, School District No. 205 (1997)
14 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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 Franchise Tax Board of the State of California v. Construction Laborers Vacation Trust for Southern California · Caterpillar Inc. v. Williams · Gully v. First Nat. Bank in Meridian · Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · Avco Corporation v. Aero Lodge No 735 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'it is the agreement of the parties, rather than the force of the law upon which the complaint was originally based, that creates the obligations embodied in a consent decree.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Removal jurisdiction is therefore completely statutory, and we cannot construe jurisdictional statutes any broader than their language will bear.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“authorized to act with or for them in affirmatively executing duties under any federal law providing for equal civil rights,”
2 later decisions 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.