144 Ill. App. 3d 171 - Smith v. Ethell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Astor Chauffeured Limousine Co. v. Runnfeldt Investment Corp. (1990), Ampat/Midwest, Inc. v. Illinois Tool Works Inc. (1990)
15 federal appellate · 9 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 79 Ill. 2d 282 - Soules v. General Motors Corp. · 66 Ill. App. 2d 134 - Broberg v. Mann · 20 Ill. 2d 89 - Schmidt v. Landfield · 117 Ill. App. 3d 600 - Central States Joint Board v. Continental Assurance Co. · 118 Ill. App. 3d 401 - Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. First Arlington National Bank
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[WJhen an individual of ordinary prudence is on notice of a possible problem and that further investigation may be required: ‘It is only where, under the circumstances, the facts should be apparent to one of his knowledge and intelligence from a cursory glance, or he has discovered something which should serve as a warning that he is being deceived, that he is required to make an investigation of his own.’ ” (Emphasis added.) ( 144 Ill. App. 3d at 175 , quoting W. Prosser, Torts §108, at 718 (4th ed. 1971).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) a false statement of material fact; (2) known or believed to be false by the person making it; (3) an intent to induce the other party to act; (4) action by the other party in reliance on the truth of the statement; and (5) damage to the other party resulting from such reliance.”
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.