129 Ill. App. 2d 166 - Drehle v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 78 Ill. App. 3d 146 - In Re Marriage of Sanborn (1979), 111 Ill. App. 3d 228 - Mistler v. Mancini (1982)
32 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he principle is now well established that the purposes of litigation are best served when each party knows as much about the controversy as is reasonably practicable. It is the puipose of pretrial discovery procedures to enhance the truth seeking process, and good faith compliance with such procedures is both desirable and necessary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here a party has resorted to pretrial discovery procedures and the opposing party fails to comply in good faith therewith, such procedure constitutes the exercise of appropriate diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberson v. Perez
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.