4 Ill. App. 3d 962 - Holiday Magic, Inc. v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Grip-Pak, Inc. v. Illinois Tool Works, Inc. (1982), 120 Ill. App. 3d 807 - Doyle v. Shlensky (1983)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 78 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 Williams v. Williams · Hauser v. Bartow · 38 Ill. 2d 209 - Fanning v. LeMay · Dean v. . Kochendorfer · 33 Ill. 2d 291 - Freides v. Sani-Mode Manufacturing Co.
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an ulterior purpose or motive; and (2)[s]ome act in the use of the legal process not proper in the regular prosecution of the proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Mjere institution of a suit or proceeding, even with the malicious intent for motive, does not itself constitute an abuse of process.... [E]ven assuming that these allegations are sufficient properly to allege the existence of an ulterior purpose, there is no allegation regarding any act in the use of process that was not proper in the regular prosecution of the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““1. Institution and prosecution of judicial proceedings by the defendant. 2. Lack of probable cause for these proceedings. 3. Malice in instituting the proceedings. 4. Termination of the prior cause in plaintiff’s favor. 5. Suffering by plaintiff of damage or injury from the prior proceeding.” (Holiday Magic, Inc. v. Scott (1972), 4 Ill. App. 3d 962 , 282 N.E.2d 452 .)”
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.