James v. TRES Computer Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Liberty Financial Management Corp. v. Beneficial Data Processing Corp. (1984), In Re Tax Protest of Strayer (1986)
29 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 85 Ill. 2d 84 - First National Bank of Springfield v. Dep't of Revenue · Kilbane v. Director of the Department of Revenue · Commerce Union Bank v. Tidwell · Janesville Data Center, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · First National Bank of Fort Worth v. Bullock
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What is created and sold here is information, and the magnetic tapes which contain this information are only a method of transmitting these intellectual creations from the originator to the user. It is merely incidental that these intangibles are transmitted by way of a tangible reel of tape....”
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.