362 Ill. App. 3d 878 - Harris v. ChartOne’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2026
3 federal appellate · 3 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 215 Ill. 2d 1 - King v. First Capital Financial Services Corp. · 276 Ill. App. 3d 843 - Smith v. Prime Cable of Chicago · 156 Ill. App. 3d 180 - Goldstein Oil Co. v. County of Cook
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“quite obvious when applied to a case of payment on a mere demand of money unaccompanied with any power or authority to enforce such demand, except by a suit at law. In such case, if the party would resist an unjust demand, he must do so at the threshold. The parties treat with each other on equal terms, and if litigation is intended by the one of whom the money is demanded, it should precede payment. When the person making the payment can only be reached by a proceeding at law, he is bound to make his defense in the first instance, and he cannot postpone the litigation by paying the demand in silence or under a reservation of right to litigate the claim, and afterward sue to recover the amount paid.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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