9 Ill. App. 3d 940 - Schultz v. McElroy’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1992
19 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 119 Ill. App. 2d 157 - Karpiel v. LASALLE NAT. BANK OF CHICAGO · 133 Ill. App. 2d 261 - Alsobrook v. Cote · 126 Ill. App. 2d 35 - Mosley v. Spears
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) the length of time used to obtain service; (2) the activities of the plaintiff; (3) any knowledge on the part of the plaintiff of defendant’s location; (4) the ease with which defendant’s whereabouts could have been ascertained; and (5) the actual knowledge by defendant of the pendency of the action.” Schultz v. McElroy, supra, at 943 .”
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.