324 Ill. App. 3d 367 - Mann v. Upjohn Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably 378 Ill. App. 3d 280 - Will v. Northwestern University (2007), 384 Ill. App. 3d 546 - Jackson v. Bailey (2008)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 174 Ill. 2d 77 - Bryson v. News America Publications, Inc. · 26 Ill. App. 2d 102 - Widicus v. Southwestern Electric Cooperative, Inc. · 181 Ill. 2d 489 - S.C. Vaughan Oil Co. v. Caldwell, Troutt & Alexander · 175 Ill. 2d 159 - Timberlake v. Illini Hospital · 292 Ill. App. 3d 925 - Merchants Bank v. Roberts
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acts arbitrarily without the employment of conscientious judgment or its decision exceeds the bounds of reason and ignores principles of law such that substantial injustice results.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What is just and proper must be determined by the facts of each case, not by a hard and fast rule applicable to all situations regardless of the outcome. [Citation.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether to grant or deny a motion for [default judgment] is within the sound discretion of the trial court, and will not be reversed absent an abuse of discretion or a denial of substantial justice”
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.