113 Ill. 2d 126 - Smith v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao (1992), Easter House v. Felder (1990)
22 federal appellate · 64 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 92 Ill. 2d 171 - Redarowicz v. Ohlendorf · 104 Ill. 2d 169 - Senn Park Nursing Center v. Miller · 72 Ill. 2d 485 - Sass v. Kramer · Moline Tool Co. v. Department of Revenue · 74 Ill. 2d 90 - People Ex Rel. Compagnie Nationale Air France v. Giliberto
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]here the defendant officer act[s] in excess of his statutory authority, the rights of the plaintiffs to be free from the consequences of his action outweigh the interest of the State which is served by the sovereign immunity doctrine." Senn Park Nursing Center v. Miller, 104 Ill.2d 169, 188 , 83 Ill.Dec. 609 , 470 N.E.2d 1029 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““The court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine the following matters: * * * (b) All claims against the state founded upon any contract entered into with the State of Illinois.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 37, par. 439.8(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Of course, because of sovereign immunity the State or a department of the State can never be a proper party defendant in an action brought directly in the circuit court.” (Emphasis added.) (Smith, 113 Ill. 2d at 132 , 497 N.E.2d at 740 .)”
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.