323 Ill. App. 3d 823 - Busch v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2022
13 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 133 Ill. 2d 295 - Healy v. Vaupel · 147 Ill. App. 3d 710 - Robb v. Sutton · 113 Ill. 2d 126 - Smith v. Jones · 287 Ill. App. 3d 16 - Brock v. Anderson Road Ass'n · 248 Ill. App. 3d 599 - Management Ass'n of Illinois, Inc. v. Board of Regents of Northern Illinois University
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who is required by law to publish defamatory matter is absolutely privileged to publish it.”
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.