63 Ill. 2d 485 - Auster v. Keck’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2000 · most notably 78 Ill. 2d 555 - Chicago Park District v. Kenroy, Inc. (1980), 69 Ill. 2d 126 - West American Insurance v. Sal E. Lobianco & Son Co. (1977)
31 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 43 Ill. 2d 54 - Rozny v. Marnul · 45 Ill. 2d 418 - Williams v. Brown Manufacturing Co. · 61 Ill. 2d 129 - Tom Olesker's Exciting World of Fashion, Inc. v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. · 56 Ill. 2d 548 - Berry v. G. D. Searle & Co. · 46 Ill. 2d 32 - Lipsey v. Michael Reese Hospital
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In our opinion the burden of alleging that the defective condition remained undiscovered from the time that construction was completed until the date that it became known to the plaintiffs rested upon them. Count II of the complaint, however, is entirely consistent with the existence of full knowledge of the defective condition on the part of the former owners during the entire period of their ownership. This case, therefore, does not call for a decision as to the applicability of the ‘discovery rule’ to malpractice actions against architects, and we do not reach that question.” 63 Ill. 2d 485, 488 .”
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.