Sutter v. Payne’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Dodson v. Allstate Insurance (2001), Davenport v. Lee (2002)
2 federal appellate · 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 42 Ill. App. 3d 159 - Blazina v. Blazina · B & F ENGINEERING, INC. v. Cotroneo · Conduitt v. Trentonton Gas & Electric Co. · Southeast Foods, Inc. v. Keener · Arnold Fireworks Display, Inc. v. Schmidt
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause [the timely answer of a codefendant] was still viable at the time that [the defaulting defendant] answered the petition . . . the trial court erred when it ruled that the common-defense doctrine did not apply. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Accordingly, we reverse the trial court's order striking [the untimely] answer . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.