201 Ill. 2d 324 - Robidoux v. Oliphant’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
301 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 312 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 274 - Forsythe v. Clark USA, Inc. (2007), 238 Ill. 2d 125 - People v. Williams (2010)
301 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 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark · 48 Ill. 2d 580 - Fooden v. Board of Governors · 156 Ill. 2d 511 - Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital · 191 Ill. 2d 493 - Michigan Avenue National Bank v. County of Cook · Evers v. General Motors Corp.
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 312 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"affidavits submitted in connection with a motion *** shall be made on the personal knowledge of the affiants; shall set forth with particularity the facts upon which the claim, counterclaim, or defense is based; shall have attached thereto sworn or certified copies of all documents upon which the affiant relies; shall not consist of conclusions but of facts admissible in evidence; and shall affirmatively show that the affiant, if sworn as a witness, can testify competently thereto. If all of the facts to be shown are not within the personal knowledge of one person, two or more affidavits shall be used." Ill. S. Ct. R. 191(a) (eff. Jan. 4, 2013).”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the pleadings, depositions, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In determining the existence of a genuine issue of material fact, courts must consider the pleadings, depositions, admissions, exhibits, and affidavits on file in the case and must construe them strictly against the movant and liberally in favor of the opponent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.