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392 Ill. App. 3d 511 - Carroll v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

19
cited by 19 later decisions
1
states following
January 2026
most recently cited

19 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 228 Ill. 2d 200 - Cinkus v. Village of Stickney Municipal Officers Electoral Board · 211 Ill. 2d 32 - Adams v. Northern Illinois Gas Co. · 57 Ill. 2d 376 - Carruthers v. B. C. Christopher & Co. · 228 Ill. 2d 404 - Williams v. Manchester · 357 Ill. App. 3d 381 - Kostal v. Pinkus Dermatopathology Laboratory, P.C.

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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]n action of replevin shall be commenced by the filing of a verified complaint which describes the property to be replevied and states that the plaintiff in such action is the owner of the property so described, or that he or she is then lawfully entitled to the possession thereof, and that the property is wrongfully detained by the defendant.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Although the decisions of foreign courts are not binding, 'the use of foreign decisions as persuasive authority is appropriate where Illinois authority on point is lacking or absent.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “party who fails to perform on the condition of the gift has no right to property acquired under such pretenses.”
    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.