228 Ill. 2d 404 - Williams v. Manchester’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
355 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 397 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 238 Ill. 2d 455 - JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v. Earth Foods, Inc. (2010), 234 Ill. 2d 446 - Kouzoukas v. Retirement Board of the Policemen's Annuity & Benefit Fund (2009)
355 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 211 Ill. 2d 32 - Adams v. Northern Illinois Gas Co. · 156 Ill. 2d 511 - Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital · 199 Ill. 2d 483 - Dillon v. Evanston Hospital · 224 Ill. 2d 154 - Bagent v. Blessing Care Corp. · 166 Ill. 2d 337 - Pasquale v. Speed Products Engineering
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 397 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the pleadings, depositions, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"Although summary judgment can aid in the expeditious disposition of a lawsuit, it remains a drastic means of disposing of litigation and, therefore, should be allowed only where the right of the moving party is clear and free from doubt. [Citation.] If the plaintiff fails to establish any element of the cause of action, summary judgment for the defendant is proper. [Citations.]" Williams, 228 Ill.2d at 417 , 320 Ill.Dec. 784 , 888 N.E.2d at 9 .”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'statutes in derogation of common law are to be strictly construed and nothing is to be read into such statutes by intendment or implication.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.