176 Ill. App. 3d 255 - Main v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2023
6 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 11 U.S.C. § 547
Relies on 92 Ill. 2d 344 - Chapski v. Copley Press · 73 Ill. 2d 113 - Towns v. Yellow Cab Co. · 113 Ill. 2d 273 - Owen v. Carr · Angeles Real Estate Co. v. Kerxton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To sustain a claim of defamation per se , this court would have to find that the term 'illegal' is necessarily synonymous with 'criminal.' We do not so find.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hill v. Stubson
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.