254 Ill. App. 3d 983 - Sutherland v. Illinois Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 276 Ill. App. 3d 843 - Smith v. Prime Cable of Chicago (1995), 315 Ill. App. 3d 340 - Rodgers v. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. (2000)
19 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 66 Ill. 2d 85 - Public Finance Corp. v. Davis · 126 Ill. 2d 78 - McGrath v. Fahey · 154 Ill. 2d 1 - Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp. · 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 139 Ill. 2d 501 - Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant’s conduct was truly extreme and outrageous; (2) the defendant either intended that his conduct inflict severe emotional distress, or knew that there was at least a high probability that his conduct would cause severe emotional distress; and (3) the defendant’s conduct did in fact cause severe emotional distress.” Sutherland v. Illinois Bell, 254 Ill. App. 3d 983, 994 (1993).”
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.