355 Ill. App. 3d 812 - Malone v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2026
10 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
Applies 16 U.S.C. § 1248 · 43 U.S.C. § 912
Relies on Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. Townsend · Railroad Company v. Baldwin · 134 Ill. App. 3d 792 - Lakeview Trust & Savings Bank v. Estrada · 109 Ill. 2d 339 - Feen v. Ray · Branch v. Central Trust Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exclusivity requires that the claimant possess the property independent of a like right in others, [and that] the opponent, the alleged rightful owner, must be altogether de- prived of possession.”
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.