332 Ill. App. 3d 562 - Medrano v. Production Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 435 - Barragan v. Casco Design Corp. (2005), Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. v. Bowman (2008)
28 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 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · 75 Ill. App. 3d 298 - Florsheim v. Travelers Indemnity Co. · 181 Ill. 2d 395 - In Re Estate of Rennick · 124 Ill. 2d 287 - Addison v. Whittenberg
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that section 13-204 will `preempt' other statutes of limitation, but it does not apply here. However, this is not because Medrano could not timely sue Cam Fran. Rather, section 13-204 is inapplicable because the parties in the instant case formed and agreed upon a contractual limitations period, which, as long as it is reasonable, does not allow them to fall back upon the default-statute of limitations”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to the extent that the claimant in an underlying action could have timely sued the party from whom contribution or indemnity is sought at the time such claimant filed the underlying action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is well established that parties to a contract may agree upon a shortened contractual limitations period to replace a statute of limitations, as long as it is reasonable.”
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.