21 Ill. 2d 353 - Shapiro v. Hruby’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably 96 Ill. 2d 159 - Vulcan Materials Co. v. Bee Construction (1983), 63 Ill. 2d 31 - Smith v. D.R.G., Inc. (1976)
35 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 18 Ill. 2d 502 - Brockmeyer v. Duncan · Leigh v. Green · 11 Ill. 2d 447 - Cherin v. R. & C. COMPANY · 15 Ill. 2d 388 - Southmoor Bank & Trust Co. v. Willis · Greenwald v. McCarthy
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y its enactment of section 266 of the Revenue Act (Ill.Rev.Stat.1959, chap.120, par. 747), the legislature intended to render tax titles incontestable except by direct attack, unless the circumstances are such as to warrant the application of section 72 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill.Rev.Stat.1959, chap.110, par. 72), [3] or unless the order directing the issuance of deed was utterly void.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Shapiro's petition to vacate was filed on November 13, 1959, within the 30-day period allowed for direct attack.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the petition to vacate was filed more than 30 days thereafter.”
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.