100 Ill. App. 3d 314 - Libco Corp. v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina (1987), Leigh v. Engle (1984)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 47 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. § 78M (§ 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Dean v. Kirkland · 67 Ill. App. 3d 179 - Weiler v. Stern · 8 Ill. App. 3d 613 - MacIe v. Clark Equipment Co. · 56 Ill. App. 3d 977 - Danaher v. Knightsbridge Co.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The absolute privilege protects anything said or written in a legal proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scheib v. Grant
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.