162 Ill. 2d 249 - Sepmeyer v. Holman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably 167 Ill. 2d 353 - Golla v. General Motors Corp. (1995), 171 Ill. 2d 282 - First of America Trust Co. v. Armstead (1996)
50 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 Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · United States v. Schooner Peggy · Campbell v. Holt · 71 Ill. 2d 563 - Kujawinski v. Kujawinski
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our decision produces a harsh result in that it extinguishes liability where such should plainly lie. That is, however, the nature of statutes of limitations. The statutes are inherently arbitrary in their operation in that they attach a complete bar to recovery of a valid claim or the imposition of criminal liability based on no more than the passage of time. While we express sympathy for plaintiff in this case, our duty is to adhere to our clearly established precedent.” (Sepmeyer v. Holman (1994), 162 Ill. 2d 249, 256 , 642 N.E.2d 1242, 1245 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this Section shall be applied retroactively and shall revive causes of actions which otherwise may have been barred under limitations provisions in effect prior to the enactment and/or effect of [the act]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“after the statute has run, is a vested right.”
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.