Douglas v. Walter’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2021
5 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 Weisguth v. Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur · 72 Ill. App. 3d 101 - Weilmuenster v. H. H. Hall Construction Co. · Bettenhausen v. Guenther · 60 Ill. App. 3d 362 - Miller v. Bloomberg · 128 Ill. App. 2d 69 - Adams v. Grace
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A voluntary dismissal with prejudice is tantamount to an adjudication on the merits. (Village of Arlington Heights v. American National Bank & Trust Co. (1979), 72 Ill. App. 3d 744, 746 , 391 N.E.2d 108, 110 .) A plaintiff who takes such a dismissal is therefore forever barred from refiling his cause. If the Weisguth rule were applied under these circumstances, a plaintiff would have no redress even where, because of fraud by the defendant, excusable neglect, or for other reasons discovered by plaintiff at the time of dismissal order but not apparent on the record and unknown to the court, allowing the dismissal to stand would be fundamentally unfair.” Douglas, 147 Ill. App. 3d at 1073-74 , 498 N.E.2d at 916 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Accordingly, we conclude that the trial court erred in holding under Weisguth that it lacked the power to modify its original orders of voluntary dismissal on plaintiff’s motions to specify that the dismissals were without prejudice.” Douglas, 147 Ill. App. 3d at 1074 , 498 N.E.2d at 916 .”
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.