36 Ill. App. 2d 55 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably 99 Ill. 2d 389 - Foutch v. O'BRYANT (1984), 28 Ill. 2d 199 - Skaggs v. Junis (1963)
54 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.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except for the clause that the court was ‘fully advised in the premises/ there is nothing in the order in the present case to indicate whether a hearing was had or not. But this clause, although often routinely and loosely used, is not without significance. ■It has been held to connote that the court heard sufficient facts to justify its order. * * * If a court signs an order which includes the words ‘the court was fully advised in the premises/ we conclude, in the absence of any contrary indication in the order or in the record, that the court heard adequate evidence, received enough information or listened to sufficient law and argument, as the necessity of the particular case required, to enable the court to reach what it believed to be the right decision on the issue presented.””
2 later decisions 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.