226 Ill. 2d 208 - Gallagher v. Lenart’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 269 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 454 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 241 Ill. 2d 428 - Thompson v. Gordon (2011), 232 Ill. 2d 156 - People v. Artis (2009)
44 federal appellate · 269 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 United States v. Olano · Wright v. Universal Maritime Service Corp. · 216 Ill. 2d 100 - Avery v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 222 Ill. 2d 422 - Marshall v. Burger King Corp. · 141 Ill. 2d 281 - Quake Construction, Inc. v. American Airlines, Inc.
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 454 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, because words derive their meaning from the context in which they are used, a contract must be construed as a whole, viewing each part in light of the others.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“intentional relinquishment of a known right”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“long-standing principle that instruments executed at the same time, by the same parties, for the same purpose, and in the course of the same transaction are regarded as one contract and will be construed together”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.