174 Ill. 2d 281 - Armstrong v. Guigler’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 408 Ill. App. 3d 564 - Khan v. BDO Seidman, LLP (2011), 234 Ill. 2d 393 - John Doe A. v. Diocese of Dallas (2009)
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 46 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1823
Relies on 43 Ill. 2d 54 - Rozny v. Marnul · 18 Ill. 2d 538 - Schiro v. W. E. Gould & Co. · 128 Ill. 2d 437 - Kinzer v. City of Chicago · Havoco of America, Ltd. v. Sumitomo Corp. of America · 58 Ill. 2d 159 - Mitchell v. White Motor Co.
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ctions on unwritten contracts, expressed or implied, or on awards of arbitration, or to recover damages for an injury done to property, real or personal, or to recover the possession of personal property or damages for the detention or conversion thereof, and all civil actions not otherwise provided for, shall be commenced within 5 years next after the cause of action accrued.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is irrelevant whether the aggrieved party seeks monetary damages, specific performance, rescission or restitution. As long as the gravamen of the complaint rests on the nonperformance of a contractual obligation, section 13-206 applies." Armstrong, 174 Ill.2d at 291 , 220 Ill.Dec. 378 , 673 N.E.2d 290 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the fact that the origin of a cause of action may ultimately be traced to a writing has never been sufficient, standing alone, to automatically warrant application of the period of limitations governing written contracts”
2 later decisions 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.