21 Ill. 2d 377 - James v. Frantz’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2025
20 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 12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell · Ward v. Sampson · Thayer v. Village of Downers Grove · Spies v. Demayo · Wright v. Simpson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the present case the appellees’ action was not commenced until the persons who had knowledge of the original transaction, and upon whose testimony the decrees reforming the deed was based, were dead. If the present attack were permitted, the defendants might be vulnerable to claims by way of accounting running over many years, but they are helpless to sustain the decrees which reformed the deed 55 and 39 years before this action was instituted. * * * ‘Here the delay must be considered in conjunction with another circumstance, — the death of Brown,- — which would seriously prejudice the appellee in defending against appellant’s claim.’ ” 107”
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.