32 Ill. App. 2d 358 - Harrell v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably 34 Ill. 2d 112 - Lulay v. Peoria Journal-Star, Inc. (1966), 99 Ill. App. 3d 421 - McCutcheon v. Moran (1981)
23 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.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has long been the recognized rule of law that whatever is said or written in a legal proceeding which is pertinent and material to the matters in controversy, is privileged, and no action of slander or libel can be maintained thereon." Id . at 361-62, 178 N.E.2d 133 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.