52 Ill. App. 3d 695 - Spears v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably King v. Ionization International, Inc. (1987), 79 Ill. App. 3d 1051 - Kooyenga v. Hertz Equipment Rentals, Inc. (1979)
4 federal appellate · 44 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 First National Bank in Plant City v. Dickinson · Ridgely v. Central Pipe Line Co. · 34 Ill. 2d 358 - Fox v. Department of Revenue · Moore v. Shook · Metropolitan Trust Co. v. Young
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, a trial court does not have jurisdiction over either the parties or the subject matter so as to permit it to review or modify its own final order or judgment after the expiration of 30 days from rendition, except pursuant to a petition for post-judgment relief under section 72 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 110, par. 72).””
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.