7 Ill. App. 2d 215 - Green v. Unity Container Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2009
11 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 May v. Chas. O. Larson Co. · Ruthfield v. Louisville Fuel Co. · Desnoyers Shoe Co. v. First National Bank · Gillham v. Troeckler · American National Bank & Trust Co. v. Keller
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Good faith' is hardly capable of an exact definition; it consists of an honest intention to abstain from taking any unconscientious advantage of another, even through forms and technicalities of the law. `Probable cause' is a reasonable belief that the claim on which the suit is brought is valid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without probable cause and not in good faith for the purpose of obtaining a judgment against him but solely for the purpose of fixing venue in that county.”
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.