45 Ill. 2d 19 - Roth v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 69 Ill. 2d 320 - Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School (1977), 79 Ill. 2d 282 - Soules v. General Motors Corp. (1980)
5 federal appellate · 75 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 Roda v. Berko · 14 Ill. 2d 178 - Collins v. Collins · 33 Ill. 2d 566 - Mooney v. Underwriters at Lloyd's, London · The People v. Cooper · People Ex Rel. Barrett v. Logan County Building & Loan Ass'n
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A misrepresentation in order to constitute a fraud must consist of a statement of material fact, false and known to be so by the party making it, made to induce the other party to act, and, in acting, the other party must rely on the truth of the statement. (Roda v. Berko, 401 Ill. 335 .)””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A purpose of pleading is to develop the issues to be determined. A failure to respond to an adversary pleading may constitute an admission of all the facts well pleaded by the adversary and admissions thus drawn from a failure to plead may be considered as evidence.””
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.