228 Ill. 2d 324 - Doe v. Dilling’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 233 Ill. 2d 46 - Newton Tractor Sales, Inc. v. Kubota Tractor Corp. (2009), Doe-3 v. McLean County Unit District No. 5 Board of Directors (2012)
12 federal appellate · 28 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. Neustadt · 174 Ill. 2d 482 - Connick v. Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd. · 131 Ill. 2d 428 - Board of Education v. A, C and S, Inc. · 79 Ill. 2d 282 - Soules v. General Motors Corp. · 114 Ill. 2d 278 - Charles Hester Enterprises, Inc. v. Illinois Founders Insurance
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a false statement of material fact; (2) known or believed to be false by the person making it; (3) an intent to induce the plaintiff to act; (4) action by the plaintiff in justifiable reliance on the truth of the statement; and (5) damage to the plaintiff resulting from such reliance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] critical element that must be established by a plaintiff in a fraudulent-misrepresentation claim is that he or she acted in justifiable reliance on the truth of the allegedly fraudulent statement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“incorrectly expanded the tort of fraudulent misrepresentation * * * beyond its general historical application to cases arising in the commercial context.”
1 later decision 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.