31 Ill. 2d 297 - Reilly v. Segert’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2019
3 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 36 Ill. App. 2d 30 - Precision Extrusions, Inc. v. Stewart · Singer v. Hutchinson · Clapp v. Peterson · Johnson v. Canfield-Swigart Co. · 44 Ill. App. 2d 343 - Reilly v. Segert
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The directors of a corporation who vote for or assent to any distribution prohibited by Section 9.10 of this Act shall be jointly and severally liable to the corporation for the amount of such distribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“based upon the adverse effect of the transaction upon creditors, and not upon the guilt or innocence of the shareholder, who [is] liable even though there [is] no evidence of fraud”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The existence of a statutory provision dealing with the liability of directors does not preclude a non-statutory liability on the part of shareholders”
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.