386 Ill. App. 3d 1096 - Hurlbert v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 393 Ill. App. 3d 591 - Gaston v. City of Danville (2009), 406 Ill. App. 3d 1099 - Barber v. City of Springfield (2011)
25 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 223 Ill. 2d 85 - Paul v. Gerald Adelman & Associates, Ltd. · In re Estate of Schlenker · 247 Ill. App. 3d 382 - St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Downs · Merrifield v. Illinois State Police Merit Board · 100 Ill. App. 3d 968 - Gay v. Open Kitchens, Inc.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[w]here violations of supreme court rules are not so flagrant as to hinder or preclude review, the striking of a brief in whole or in part may be unwarranted.'”
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.