75 Ill. App. 3d 793 - Blaise v. Stein’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2025
21 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 13 Ill. 2d 420 - Pocius v. Fleck · 7 Ill. 2d 231 - Pope v. Speiser · 7 Ill. 2d 436 - Greenwood v. Commercial Nat. Bank of Peoria · Ropacki v. Ropacki · Oswald v. Nehls
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Specific performance is not a matter of right; it is a remedy resting in the sound discretion of the court. [Citations.] Before a court may exercise that discretion in favor of granting the remedy in the case of an oral contract which would normally be unenforceable under the Statute of Frauds, the court must find that the terms of the contract are clear, definite, and unequivocal [citations], that the contract has been at least partially performed by the party seeking the remedy [citations], and that the acts allegedly done in performance are positively attributable exclusively to the contract [citations]. These elements must be proved by clear, cogent and convincing evidence leaving no reasonable doubt in the mind of the court. [Citation.]””
2 later decisions 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.