165 Ill. App. 3d 793 - Poulos v. Reda’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 159 Ill. 2d 137 - Congregation of the Passion v. Touche Ross & Co. (1994), 162 Ill. 2d 70 - Downing v. Chicago Transit Authority (1994)
10 federal appellate · 28 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 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · 50 Ill. 2d 351 - Jack Spring, Inc. v. Little · 46 Ill. 2d 249 - Rosewood Corp. v. Fisher · 13 Ill. 2d 45 - Village of Niles v. Szczesny · 112 Ill. 2d 70 - George W. Kennedy Construction Co. v. City of Chicago
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the procedural equivalent of a trial and is an adjudication of the claim on the merits” and”
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.