79 Ill. App. 3d 215 - Mitchell v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Havoco of America, Ltd. v. Sumitomo Corp. of America (1992), 222 Ill. App. 3d 302 - Senese v. Climatemp, Inc. (1991)
4 federal appellate · 17 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 12 Ill. 2d 547 - Pyle v. Ferrell · 45 Ill. App. 3d 981 - Doran v. Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co. · 15 Ill. 2d 227 - Anderson v. Lybeck · 13 Ill. App. 3d 976 - Hendricks v. Deterts · 17 Ill. 2d 462 - Tarpoff v. Karandjeff
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the pleadings, depositions, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
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.