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143 Ill. 2d 489 - DeClerck v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

49
cited by 49 later decisions
1
states following
August 2020
most recently cited

16 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 329 Ill. App. 3d 686 - Continental Casualty Co. v. American National Bank & Trust Co. (2002), Mares v. Busby (1994)

16 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1391

Relies on 66 Ill. 2d 136 - Franzese v. Trinko · Scullin Steel Company v. National Railway Utilization Corp · 73 Ill. 2d 78 - Hupp v. Gray · 32 Ill. 2d 40 - Roth v. Northern Assurance Co. Ltd. · 99 Ill. 2d 382 - Conner v. Copley Press, 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that the verbiage of the statute must be given its plain and ordinary meaning, and the intention of the legislature is best surmised from the language of the statute.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Malone v. Bankhead Enterprises, Inc. · Conover v. Lein
  2. “[t]he savings statute, as it now exists, is a plain, unambiguous statute, and it is inapplicable to the circumstances of the instant case.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Malone v. Bankhead Enterprises, Inc. · Conover v. Lein
  3. “to facilitate the disposition of litigation upon the merits and to avoid its frustration upon grounds that are unrelated to the merits.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hinkle v. Henderson

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.