34 Ill. App. 3d 356 - Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 101 Ill. 2d 526 - In Re Marriage of Kozloff (1984), 62 Ill. App. 3d 299 - Eckley v. St. Therese Hospital (1978)
33 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 Nye v. Nye · 57 Ill. 2d 247 - Rosewood Corp. v. Transamerica Insurance · 111 Ill. App. 2d 190 - Vermilion County Production Credit Ass'n v. Izzard · 16 Ill. App. 3d 29 - Goshey v. Dunlap · Baker v. Libbie
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless they were judicially cognizable, they had to be proved. (McGurn v. Brotman, 25 Ill. App. 2d 294 , 167 N.E.2d 12 .) This was true even though they were personally known to him, either as a court or as an individual. (Abbott v. Abbott, 129 Ill. App. 2d 96 , 262 N.E.2d 502 ; 29 Am. Jur. 2d Evidence §15 (1967).) The right of a court to act on that which is known to it must be subordinate to those requirements of form and orderly communication which regulate the mode of bringing controversies into court, of starting and conducting them. (29 Am. Jur. 2d Evidence §14 (1967).) * * *” Johnson, 34 Ill. App. 3d 356, 363 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““A change of venue in any civil action may be had in the following situations: «0« (2) Where any party or his attorney fears that he will not receive a fair trial in the court in which the action is pending, because 000 the judge is prejudiced against him, or his attorney # 6 ”, In any such situation the venue shall not be changed except upon application, as provided in this Act, or by consent of 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.