Makula v. J’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2023
1 federal appellate · 1 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 Butner v. United States · 94 Ill. App. 2d 43 - Levine v. Pascal · King v. Ionization International, Inc. · 126 Ill. 2d 307 - Bank of Aspen v. Fox Cartage, Inc. · 108 Ill. 2d 1 - Sanelli v. Glenview State 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here are a number of Illinois appellate court decisions on which we can rely to decide this case. The fact that we may need to probe below the surface of some of them in order to tease out a consistent rule is hardly reason enough on its own to burden the Illinois Supreme Court with this issue.”
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.