12 Ill. 2d 588 - Smith v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 85 Ill. 2d 124 - Palmateer v. International Harvester Co. (1981), 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo (1961)
9 federal appellate · 46 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 People Ex Rel. Eitel v. Lindheimer · Grasse v. Dealer's Transport Co. · Laughlin v. Hopkinson · The People v. Chi. Transit Authority · Smith v. Board of Education of Oswego Community High School District
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Act in barring punitive damages merely establishes a “public policy” that in the interest of society in the particular class of cases such damages should not be awarded. Such damages being allowed in the interest of society, and not to recompense solely the victim, to deny them cannot be said to deny any constitutional right or to encroach upon any judicial function, or to violate any constitutional guaranty of separation of powers.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is entitled to ... a cause of action for damages actually sustained when he has suffered injury---- [The promise act] does not take away the cause of action for breach of promise or the right to damages actually sustained by the aggrieved party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is true that the legislature can not pass an act depriving a citizen of any vested right, but to be a vested right, ‘It must be something more than a mere expectation based upon an anticipated continuance of the existing law. It must have become a title, legal or equitable, to the present or future enjoyment of property or to the present or future enjoyment of the demand, or a legal exemption from a demand made by another. If, before rights become vested in particular individuals, the convenience of the State induces amendment or repeal of the laws, these individuals have no cause to complain.’ People ex rel. Foote v. Clark, 283 Ill. 221 , 119 N.E. 329 . Of like import is the Case of People ex rel. Eitel v. Lindheimer, 371 Ill. 367, 21 N.E.2d 318, 321 , 124 A.L.R. 1472 .” Smith v. Hill, 12 Ill.2d 588, 147 N.E.2d 321 , 73 A.L.R.2d 540 .”
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.