118 Ill. App. 3d 65 - Sutton v. Hofeld’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2006
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
Relies on 56 Ill. App. 3d 815 - Lyddon v. Shaw · 50 Ill. App. 3d 1033 - Kurek v. Kavanagh, Scully, Sudow, White & Frederick · 65 Ill. App. 3d 824 - Balthazar v. Dowling
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he termination requirement must be strictly construed to prevent premature claims of malicious prosecution. Thus, the termination of the prior suit in favor of the plaintiff must be a determination that deals with factual issues. Compromises, voluntary dismissals, and even involuntary dismissals are not such terminations. [Citations.]"”
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.