87 Ill. 2d 7 - Miner v. Gillette Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 139 Ill. 2d 501 - Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights (1990), 217 Ill. 2d 158 - Gridley v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2005)
4 federal appellate · 120 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson · Hanson v. Denckla · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Shaffer v. Heitner
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Because a class action must necessarily proceed in the absence of almost every class member, we hold the residential makeup of the class membership is not controlling. [Citation.] What is important is that the nonresident plaintiffs be given notice and an opportunity to be heard and that their rights be justly protected by adequate representation. These are the essential requirements of due process, and they must be satisfied in any class action by every court, state or federal, regardless of the residences of the absent class members. Therefore, *** the element necessary to the exercise of jurisdiction over nonresident plaintiff class members is procedural due process.’ ” (Emphasis omitted.) Miner, 87 Ill. 2d at 12-13 , quoting Shutts v. Phillips Petroleum Co., 222 Kan. 527, 542-43 , 567 P.2d 1292, 1305 (1977), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 1068 , 55 L. Ed. 2d 769 , 98 S. Ct. 1246 (1978).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he present case is predicated upon a series of essentially identical transactions by thousands of purchasers including Illinois residents, which were founded upon and arose out of identical language in the promotional offer prepared by defendant. Unlike in the class of nonresidents, the Illinois class also has a common question of law, that is, the law of Illinois, so that there is no possibility that different questions of law will predominate.” (Emphasis added.) Miner, 87 Ill. 2d at 19 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘[T]he hypothetical existence of individual issues is not a sufficient reason to deny the right to bring a class action. Where it appears that the common issue is dominant and pervasive, something more than the assertion of hypothetical variations of a minor character should be required to bar the action.’ ” (Gillette, 87 Ill. 2d at 20 , 428 N.E.2d at 485 , quoting Harrison Sheet Steel Co. v. Lyons (1959), 15 Ill. 2d 532, 538 , 155 N.E.2d 595, 598 .)”
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.