323 Ill. App. 3d 628 - Woolums v. Huss’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2026
24 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 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark · 176 Ill. 2d 95 - Holton v. Memorial Hospital · 213 Ill. App. 3d 242 - Gardner v. Navistar International Transportation Corp. · 110 Ill. App. 3d 569 - Burks Drywall, Inc. v. Washington Bank & Trust Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Affidavits in support of and in opposition to a motion for summary judgment *** shall be made on the personal knowledge of the affiants; shall set forth with particularity the facts upon which the claim, counterclaim, or defense is based; shall have attached thereto sworn or certified copies of all papers upon which the affiant relies; shall not consist of conclusions but of facts admissible in evidence; and shall affirmatively show that the affiant, if sworn as a witness, can testify competently thereto.” 145 Ill. 2d R. 191(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must consist of facts admissible in evidence as opposed to conclusions.”
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.