Ettenson v. Burke’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
22 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Deflon v. Sawyers (2006), Bogle v. Summit Investment Co., LLC (2005)
22 district · 30 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 115 Ill. 2d 482 - Duldulao v. Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center · Schmitz v. Smentowski · Top Service Body Shop, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance · Embree Construction Group, Inc. v. Rafcor, Inc. · Wellington Systems, Inc. v. Redding Group, Inc.
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that a conspiracy between two or more individuals existed; (2) that specific wrongful acts were carried out by the defendants pursuant to the conspiracy; and (3) that the plaintiff was damaged as a result of such acts. However, unlike a conspiracy in the criminal context, a civil conspiracy by itself is not actionable, nor does it provide an independent basis for liability unless a civil action in damages would lie against one of the conspirators. A civil conspiracy must actually involve an independent unlawful act that causes harm- something that would give rise to a civil action of its own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) Defendant had knowledge of the contract between plaintiff and any third party; (2) Plaintiff was unable to fulfill its contract obligations; (3) Defendant played an active and substantial part in causing Plaintiff to lose the benefits of the contract; (4) Plaintiff suffered damages resulting from the breach; and (5) Defendant induced the breach without justification or privilege to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“achieving an unlawful purpose or using an unlawful means to achieve a lawful goal ”) (emphasis added). . Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint (Doc. 109, pg. 10). . Plaintiff’s Second Amended Complaint (Doc. 109, pg. 18). . Elements of fraud include,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.