265 Ill. App. 3d 739 - Draper v. Frontier Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 308 Ill. App. 3d 18 - Tolan & Son, Inc. v. KLLM Architects, Inc. (1999), American United Logistics Inc Central American Warehousing Co Inc v. Catellus Development Corporation (2003)
7 federal appellate · 16 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 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Richards · 219 Ill. App. 3d 1048 - Melko v. Dionisio · 124 Ill. 2d 19 - In Re Marriage of Olsen · 230 Ill. App. 3d 248 - Wilmette Partners v. Hamel · 246 Ill. App. 3d 860 - Rohter v. Passarella
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Section 2 — 619 provides a means to dispose of issues of law or of easily proved issues of fact. [Citations.] A section 2 — 619 motion admits all well-pleaded facts in the complaint but does not admit conclusions of law or conclusions of fact unsupported by specific allegations. [Citation.] The trial court should grant the motion only if, after construing the documents supporting the motion in the light most favorable to the nonmovant, it finds no disputed issues of fact. [Citation.] The trial court may not weigh the evidence or decide controverted material issues of fact.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] third-party beneficiary to a contract has no greater rights than the party under which she claims.”
1 later decision 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.