231 Ill. App. 3d 890 - Phillips v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably S.V. v. R.V. (1996), Moriarty v. Garden Sanctuary Church of God (2000)
5 federal appellate · 50 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 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · 85 Ill. 2d 161 - Nolan v. Johns-Manville Asbestos · 85 Ill. 2d 146 - Witherell v. Weimer · 79 Ill. 2d 295 - Anderson v. Wagner · DeRose v. Carswell
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.
“"(b) An action for damages for personal injury based on childhood sexual abuse must be commenced within 2 years of the date the person abused discovers or through the use of reasonable diligence should discover that the act of childhood sexual abuse occurred and that the injury was caused by the childhood sexual abuse..."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the manifest injustice of requiring plaintiff to know that which is inherently unknowable”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statute of limitations which decreases the time in which an action may be filed should not be applied retroactively so as to instantaneously bar ... existing causes of action”
2 later decisions 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.