43 Ill. App. 2d 373 - Smith v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2004
6 federal appellate · 11 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term malice’, in ordinary usage means HI will against a person, but in the legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionaHy without just cause or excuse.” Kemp v. Division No. 241 Ry. Employees of America, 255 Ill. 213 , 99 N.E. 389, 399 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.