125 Ill. 2d 498 - Collins Co. v. Carboline Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably 174 Ill. 2d 482 - Connick v. Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd. (1996), Voelker v. Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (2003)
35 federal appellate · 6 district · 42 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 91 Ill. 2d 69 - Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. National Tank Co. · 92 Ill. 2d 171 - Redarowicz v. Ohlendorf · 42 Cal. 2d 682 - Burr v. Sherwin Williams Co. · Spring Motors Distributors, Inc. v. Ford Motor Co. · Randy Knitwear, Inc. v. American Cyanamid 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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extend to an assignee's right to sue for purely economic loss and consequential damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once made, an assignment puts the assignee into the shoes of the assignor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ur. decision also potentially gives effect to the ostensible promise of performance made by Carboline in its warranty, instead of rendering the promise illusory on the happenstance basis of a transfer of the warranted goods before the end of the stated warranty period. After all, Carboline could have included a limitation on assignment in its express 10-year warranty if it had so desired.”
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.