306 Ill. App. 3d 1048 - Burrows v. Pick’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 315 Ill. App. 3d 238 - Technology Innovation Center, Inc. v. Advanced Multiuser Technologies Corp. (2000), 407 Ill. App. 3d 902 - Benson v. Stafford (2010)
35 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 127 Ill. 2d 61 - Estate of Wernick v. MacKs · 133 Ill. 2d 458 - Yassin v. Certified Grocers of Illinois, Inc. · 211 Ill. App. 3d 330 - Lewy v. Koeckritz International, Inc. · 201 Ill. App. 3d 1005 - Gualandri & Co. v. Smith · 282 Ill. App. 3d 262 - Duignan v. Lincoln Towers Ins. Agency
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Every pleading, motion and other document of a party represented by an attorney shall be signed by at least one attorney of record in his individual name, whose address shall be stated. * * * The signature of an attorney or party constitutes a certificate by him that he has read the pleading, motion or other document; that to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry it is well grounded in fact and is warranted by existing law or a good-faith argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law, and that it is not interposed for any improper purpose, such as to harass or to cause unnecessary delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation. * * * If a pleading, motion, or other document is signed in violation of this rule, the court, upon motion or upon its own initiative, may impose upon the person who signed it, a represented party, or both, an appropriate sanction, which may include an order to pay to the other party or parties the amount of reasonable expenses incurred because of the filing of the pleading, motion or other document, including a reasonable attorney fee." Ill. S.Ct. R. 137(a) (eff. July 1, 2013).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The burden on a party seeking [Rule 137] sanctions is to show that the opposing party made untrue and false allegations without reasonable cause. [Citation.] The trial court must employ an objective standard to determine whether a party made a reasonable inquiry; subjective good faith is insufficient to meet the burden of Rule 137. [Citations.] When reviewing a trial court’s decision to impose sanctions, the appellate court must determine whether the circuit court’s decision was informed, based on valid reasons, and followed logically from the circumstances of the case. [Citation.]” Burrows v. Pick, 306 Ill. App. 3d 1048, 1050-51 (1999).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“actions based upon unsupported allegations of fact or law. Burrows v. Pick , 306 Ill. App. 3d 1048 , 1050, 240 Ill.Dec. 105 , 715 N.E.2d 792 (1999). Rule 137 provides:”
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.