173 Ill. 2d 447 - Kessinger v. Grefco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 197 Ill. 2d 381 - Nowak v. St. Rita High School (2001), 177 Ill. 2d 185 - Talarico v. Dunlap (1997)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Goodson v. McDonough Power Equipment, Inc. · 118 Ill. 2d 23 - Zurich Insurance Co. v. Raymark Industries, Inc. · In re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation MDL No. 381 · 167 Ill. 2d 288 - Herzog v. Lexington Township · 78 Ill. 2d 1 - Illinois State Chamber of Commerce v. Pollution Control Board
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.
“To operate as an estoppel by verdict it is absolutely necessary that there shall have been a finding of a specific fact in the former judgment or record that is material and controlling in that case and also material and controlling in the pending case. It must also conclusively appear that the matter of fact was so in issue that it was necessarily determined .... If there is any uncertainty on the point that more than one distinct issue of fact is presented to the court the estoppel will not be applied, for the reason that the court may have decided upon one of the other issues of fact.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is any uncertainty on the point that more than one -36- No. 1-13-2551 distinct issue of fact is presented to the court, [collateral] estoppel will not be applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Application of the doctrine of collateral estoppel must be narrowly tailored to fit the precise facts and issues that were clearly determined in the prior judgment.”
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.