317 Ill. App. 3d 33 - People v. Wouk’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2025
15 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 Ashe v. Swenson · People v. Gates · 177 Ill. 2d 185 - Talarico v. Dunlap · 193 Ill. 2d 378 - American Family Mutual Insurance v. Savickas · 138 Ill. 2d 162 - People v. Moore
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Although an issue is actually litigated and determined by a valid and final judgment, and the determination is essential to the judgment, relitigation of the issue in a subsequent action between the parties is not precluded in the following circumstances: (5) There is a clear and convincing need for a new determination of the issue (a) because of the potential adverse impact of the determination on the public interest or the interests of persons not themselves parties in the initial action ***.’ ” Wouk, 317 Ill. App. 3d at 40 , 739 N.E.2d at 69-70 , quoting Restatement (Second) of Judgments § 28(5) (1982).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The narrow issue litigated in the dependency proceeding was whether the parents had cruelly inflicted the child's injuries upon him. The juvenile court expressly found no such abuse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he differences of purpose and goal in the civil and criminal procedures are `very real[,]'”
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.