278 Ill. App. 3d 663 - Spillyards v. Abboud’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 278 Ill. App. 3d 628 - Lawson v. City of Chicago (1996), Strasenburgh v. Straubmuller (1996)
12 federal appellate · 49 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 Aronson v. Lewis · 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge · 159 Ill. 2d 469 - Illinois Graphics Co. v. Nickum · Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc. · Unocal Corp. v. Mesa Petroleum Co.
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the existence of a genuine issue of material fact should have precluded the dismissal or, absent such an issue of fact, whether dismissal is proper as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“on an informed basis, in good faith and in an honest belief that the actions taken are in the best interest of the company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to inform themselves, prior to making the business decision, of all material information reasonably available to them.”
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.