154 Ill. 2d 48 - Collins v. Reynard’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 18 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 159 Ill. 2d 137 - Congregation of the Passion v. Touche Ross & Co. (1994), 193 Ill. 2d 433 - Neade v. Portes (2000)
14 federal appellate · 18 district · 80 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 91 Ill. 2d 69 - Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. National Tank Co. · 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 36 Ill. 2d 516 - Lance v. Senior
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Damages recoverable under a breach of contract theory are based upon the mutual expectations of the parties. The basic principle for the measurement of contract damages is that the injured party is entitled to recover an amount that will put him in as good a position as he would have been in had the contract been performed as agreed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Tort law * * * applies in situations where society recognizes a duty to exist wholly apart from any contractual undertaking.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the common law distinctions between contract and tort have been both modified and confused by different courts in different situations, differences between tort theories and contract theories still have validity. For all of that, a punch in the nose remains, for all practical purposes, a tort and not a breach of contract. In the field of contract, however, some breaches have crossed the line and become cognizable in tort.”
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.