Whitney v. Madden’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 11 Ill. 2d 378 - Nelson v. Miller (1957), 98 Ill. 2d 338 - Torres v. Walsh (1983)
11 federal appellate · 76 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Williams v. State of North Carolina · Paul v. Virginia · Broderick v. Rosner · McKnett v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““relief is sought in the local courts by a nonresident against a nonresident for a transaction which occurred outside the territorial boundaries of the State, for the purpose of frustrating the defendant, or if the bringing of the action unduly burdens the defendant or cause[s] him great and unnecessary inconvenience, or unnecessarily burdens the court, the trial court may, in its discretion, decline the jurisdiction of the case, even though it may have proper jurisdiction over all parties and the subject matter involved.” Whitney, 400 Ill. at 189 , 79 N.E.2d at 595 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ut where the trial court has the power of judicial discretion and exercises it without abuse, and within the scope of the law, such actions will not be disturbed by the reviewing courts[]”
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.