209 Ill. 2d 76 - Vitro v. Mihelcic’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 147 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 422 - Marshall v. Burger King Corp. (2006), 216 Ill. 2d 481 - People v. Sharpe (2005)
145 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 Payne v. Tennessee · United States v. Powell · 114 Ill. 2d 107 - Ballweg v. City of Springfield · 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch · Tobin v. Grossman
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 147 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The doctrine of stare decisis "expresses the policy of the courts to stand by precedents and not to disturb settled points.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the allegations of the complaint, when construed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, are sufficient to establish a cause of action upon which relief may be granted.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a court must accept as true all well-pleaded facts in the complaint and all reasonable inferences therefrom.”
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.