83 Ill. App. 3d 78 - Hale v. Ault’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably 158 Ill. App. 3d 526 - Madison Associates v. Bass (1987), 132 Ill. App. 3d 1019 - S & D Service, Inc. v. 915-925 W. Schubert Condominium Ass'n (1985)
4 federal appellate · 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 46 Ill. 2d 249 - Rosewood Corp. v. Fisher · 39 Ill. App. 3d 406 - North Park Bus Service, Inc. v. Pastor · Reed v. Tyler · 24 Ill. App. 3d 10 - Hale v. Ault · Hammond v. Doty
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The doctrine of res judicata applies only to such matters as are necessary to a court’s decision. It does not apply to matters which are unnecessary even though a court spoke to them, or might even have decided them.” (Hale v. Ault (1980), 83 Ill. App. 3d 78, 83 , 403 N.E.2d 635, 639 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one seeking specific performance [under a contract] must have fulfilled all his obligations under the contract.”
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.