89 Ill. 2d 322 - People v. Whitlow’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 district · 178 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry (2007), 189 Ill. 2d 99 - People v. Blue (2000)
3 district · 178 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
Applies 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933) · 15 U.S.C. § 77X (§ 24 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Costello v. United States · Aaron v. Securities & Exchange Commission · 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson · 76 Ill. 2d 289 - People v. Taylor · New York Shipping Ass'n v. Federal Maritime Commission
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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to Counts I, II, III and IV, Plaintiff has the burden of proving each of the following propositions: First, that the Defendant made an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; Second, that the Defendant acted knowingly; Third, that the Plaintiff justifiably relied upon the Defendant’s conduct.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the statute does not prescribe a particular mental state applicable to an element of an offense (other than an offense which involves absolute liability), any mental state defined in Sections 4 — 4, 4 — 5 or 4 — 6 is applicable.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 38, par. 4 — 3(b).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It shall be unlawful for any person in the offer or sale of any securities ... by the use of any means or instruments of transportation or communication in interstate commerce ... to obtain money or ‘property by means of any untrue statement of a material fact or any omission to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.”
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.