Blankenship v. Saitz’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2000
5 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 Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · 98 Ill. 2d 338 - Torres v. Walsh · Exxon Corp. v. Allsup · Elliott v. Johnston · State Ex Rel. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad v. Riederer
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) place of the accrual of the cause of action; (2) location of the witnesses; (3) the residence of the parties; (4) any nexus with the place of suit; (5) the public factor of the convenience to and burden upon the court; and (6) the availability to plaintiff of another court with jurisdiction of the cause of action which affords him a forum for his remedy.”
2 later decisions 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.