317 Ill. App. 3d 486 - Crain v. Lucent Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2026
4 federal appellate · 14 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
Applies 47 U.S.C. § 151
Relies on Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Nader v. Allegheny Airlines, Inc. · Capital Cities Cable, Inc. v. Crisp · 76 Ill. 2d 427 - Burtell v. First Charter Service Corp. · 112 Ill. 2d 428 - Kellerman v. MCI Telecommunications Corp.
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.
“the prejudice to the nonmovant if the motion is granted against the policy of avoiding duplicative litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“preemption argument brings into issue the authority of the trial court to enter the order appealed from.”
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.