292 Ill. App. 3d 116 - Becker v. Zellner’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 318 Ill. App. 3d 686 - Kurczaba v. Pollock (2000), 305 Ill. App. 3d 1054 - Aboufariss v. City of De Kalb (1999)
61 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 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge · 174 Ill. 2d 77 - Bryson v. News America Publications, Inc. · 159 Ill. 2d 469 - Illinois Graphics Co. v. Nickum · 154 Ill. 2d 1 - Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp. · 190 Ill. App. 3d 524 - Downers Grove Volkswagen, Inc. v. Wigglesworth Imports, Inc.
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.
“Raising such defenses in a section 2-615 motion would completely contradict the purpose of bringing such a motion, where the movant is expressly challenging the sufficiency of the complaint itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is barred by other affirmative matter avoiding the legal effect of or defeating the claim.”
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.