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197 Ill. 2d 514 - Steinbrecher v. Steinbrecher’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

267

cited by 267 later decisions

cited 2 times by the Supreme Court

states following

March 2026

most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 3 district · 241 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 267 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 199 Ill. 2d 325 - Belleville Toyota, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (2002), 208 Ill. 2d 291 - People v. Flowers (2004)

3 federal appellate · 3 district · 241 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 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority · 156 Ill. 2d 149 - People v. Davis · 103 Ill. 2d 536 - Archer Daniels Midland Co. v. Barth · 187 Ill. 2d 144 - People v. Buss · 152 Ill. 2d 533 - State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Yapejian

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 267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"`Circuit Court[s] shall have unlimited original jurisdiction of all justiciable matters.' Ill. Const. 1870, art. VI, § 9 (amended 1964); accord Ill. Const.1970, art. VI, § 9 (`Circuit Courts shall have original jurisdiction of all justiciable matters except when the Supreme Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction')." Steinbrecher, 197 Ill.2d at 530 , 259 Ill. Dec. 729 , 759 N.E.2d at 518 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. 206 Ill. 2d 541 - People Ex Rel. Graf v. Village of Lake Bluff · 375 Ill. App. 3d 758 - People v. Alex T.
“An [issue] is moot when it involves no actual controversy or the reviewing court cannot grant the complaining party effectual relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 2015 IL App (1st) 130414 - Benz v. The Departmen of Children and Family Services · 354 Ill. Dec. 833 - Van Gelderen v. Hokin
“[c]riminal proceedings that involve the power to render judgments or sentences address a separate set of concerns”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. 375 Ill. App. 3d 728 - People v. Gilberto G.-P. · 402 Ill. App. 3d 100 - People v. SHARIFPOUR

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.