Ward v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 113 Ill. 2d 294 - State Bank of Lake Zurich v. Thill (1986), 192 Ill. 2d 291 - Smithberg v. Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (2000)
3 federal appellate · 52 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 Smith v. Smith · Miller v. Rowan · Armstrong v. Obucino · Higgins v. Higgins · Thayer v. Village of Downers Grove
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the court entering a judgment exceeds its jurisdiction and the judgment or decree transcends the statute conferring jurisdiction on the court, the judgment or decree is void * *”
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.