131 Ill. 2d 491 - Simcox v. Simcox’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 155 Ill. 2d 402 - In Re Estate of Hoover (1993), Binion v. Chater (1997)
70 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 Poe v. Ullman · 126 Ill. 2d 186 - Suttles v. Vogel · 128 Ill. 2d 437 - Kinzer v. City of Chicago · 503 So. 2d 249 - Baker by Williams v. Williams · S v. S.
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a final judgment on the merits rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction bars any subsequent actions between the same parties or their privies on the same cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“provides that an issue which has been addressed by a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be relitigated in a later action between the same parties or their privies....”
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.