135 Ill. App. 3d 695 - Petty v. Cadwallader’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 870 F. Supp. 870 - Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. Sims (1994), 208 Ill. App. 3d 426 - Burnhope v. National Mortgage Equity Corp. (1990)
3 federal appellate · 2 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Green v. Advance Ross Electronics Corp. · 87 Ill. 2d 190 - Cook Associates, Inc. v. Lexington United Corp. · 96 Ill. App. 3d 834 - Business Development Services, Inc. v. Field Container Corp. · The City of Chicago v. Barnett
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 2-209 provides in relevant part: (a) Any person, whether or not a citizen or resident of this State, who in person or through an agent does any of the acts hereinafter enumerated, thereby submits such person ..to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State as to any cause of action arising from the doing of such acts: (1) The transaction of any business within this State; ****** (c) Only causes of action arising from acts enumerated herein may be asserted against a defendant in an action in which jurisdiction over him or her is based upon this Section.”
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.