34 Ill. App. 3d 677 - Smith v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 119 Ill. App. 3d 713 - Bass v. Washington-Kinney Co. (1983), 73 Ill. App. 3d 288 - People v. Rhoads (1979)
49 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 United States v. Hickey · 61 Ill. 2d 559 - People v. Ward · The People v. Black · 22 Ill. 2d 420 - The PEOPLE v. Armstrong · 43 Ill. App. 2d 251 - Johnson v. Jackson
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Any writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction, occurrence, or event, shall be admissible as evidence of the act, transaction, occurrence, or event, if made in the regular course of any business, and if it was the regular course of the business to make such a memorandum or record at the time of such an act, transaction, occurrence, or event or within a reasonable time thereafter. All other circumstances of the making of the writing or record, including lack of personal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect its weight, but shall not affect its admissibility. The term ‘business,’ as used in this rule, includes business, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind.””
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.