183 Ill. App. 3d 768 - Cole v. Guy’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 398 Ill. App. 3d 21 - Gambino v. Boulevard Mortgage Corp. (2009), 348 Ill. App. 3d 929 - Village of South Elgin v. Waste Management of Illinois, Inc. (2004)
31 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 132 Ill. App. 3d 408 - Ford v. City of Chicago · 91 Ill. 2d 138 - People Ex Rel. Scott v. College Hills Corp. · 149 Ill. App. 3d 23 - In Re Marriage of Kaplan · 124 Ill. App. 3d 487 - Carlyle v. Jaskiewicz · 27 Ill. App. 3d 331 - In Re Estate of Lipchik
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a complaint contains allegations that are not necessary to the plaintiff's cause of action, a court will treat those allegations as mere surplusage, which does not destroy the sufficiency of the plaintiff's complaint”
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.