326 Ill. App. 3d 111 - Viktron Limted Partnership v. Program Data Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 359 Ill. App. 3d 605 - Keller v. Henderson (2005), 366 Ill. App. 3d 135 - Commerce Trust Co. v. Air 1st Aviation Companies, Inc. (2006)
48 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Burger King Corporation v. Rudzewicz · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · 3 Cal. 4th 459 - Nedlloyd Lines B v. v. Superior Court
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Any person, whether or not a citizen or resident of this State, who in person or through an agent does any of the acts hereinafter enumerated, thereby submits such person, and, if an individual, his or her personal representative, to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State as to any cause of action arising from the doing of any of such acts: (1) The transaction of any business within this State; (2) The commission of a tortious act within this State; * * * (7) The making or performance of any contract or promise substantially connected with this State; * * * (c) A court may also exercise jurisdiction on any other basis now or hereafter permitted by the Illinois Constitution and the Constitution of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he factors a court considers to determine whether a defendant has sufficiently transacted business in Illinois so as to have purposefully availed him or herself of the benefits of Illinois law are: (1) who initiated the transaction; (2) where the contract was formed; and (3) where performance of the contract was to take place.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“prior negotiations and future consequences, as well as on the terms of the contract and the course of dealing between the parties.”
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.