49 Ill. 2d 131 - Fultz v. Haugan’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 138 Ill. 2d 458 - Marsh v. Evangelical Covenant Church (1990), 85 Ill. 2d 253 - Sears v. Sears (1981)
89 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 44 Ill. 2d 412 - Deckard v. Joiner · 40 Ill. 2d 442 - Pape v. Department of Revenue · 104 Ill. App. 2d 356 - Tomaska v. Barone · North Pier Terminal Co. v. Hoskins Coal & Dock Corp.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) In all cases tried without a jury, any party may, within 30 days after the entry of the decree or judgment or within any further time the court may allow within the 30 days or any extensions thereof, file a motion for a rehearing, or a retrial, or modification of the decree or judgment or to vacate the decree or judgment or for other relief.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 110, par. 68.3(1).)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““After the order of April 24 denying the motion to vacate plaintiff had 30 days within which to file a notice of appeal (Rule 303(a)) or to file a motion attacking the order of April 24 or to obtain an extension of time within which to do so (Section 68.3.)” (Emphasis added.) Fultz, 49 Ill. 2d 131, 135 , 305 N.E.2d 873, 875-76 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Plaintiff could therefore only amend the complaint to make the same conform to the proof. However, the order of March 31 was entered pursuant to the defendant’s motion to dismiss and no evidence by way of testimony or otherwise was presented, and thus no proof with which to make the complaint conform after judgment.” (Emphasis added.)”
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.