72 Ill. 2d 485 - Sass v. Kramer’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 133 Ill. 2d 295 - Healy v. Vaupel (1990), 104 Ill. 2d 169 - Senn Park Nursing Center v. Miller (1984)
3 federal appellate · 116 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 Moline Tool Co. v. Department of Revenue · 28 Ill. 2d 379 - Beloit Foundry Co. v. Ryan · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Clapp · 36 Ill. 2d 382 - E. H. Swenson & Son, Inc. v. Lorenz
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clearly affect[ed] property of the State”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.