97 Ill. App. 3d 1040 - Brennan v. Kenwick’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 142 Ill. App. 3d 533 - Kostakos v. KSN Joint Venture No. 1 (1986), 316 Ill. App. 3d 1182 - Bishop v. We Care Hair Development Corp. (2000)
7 federal appellate · 44 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 77 Ill. App. 2d 260 - Applicolor, Inc. v. Surface Combustion Corp. · 72 Ill. App. 3d 966 - Epstein v. Yoder · 73 Ill. App. 3d 1046 - Wilcox Co. v. Bouramas · 76 Ill. App. 3d 812 - Gateway Drywall & Decorating, Inc. v. Village Construction Co. · 68 Ill. App. 3d 528 - Hilti, Inc. v. Griffith
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“waiver was found where the party requesting arbitration had imitated legal proceedings concerning arbitrable issues and had participated in a 6-day trial on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that arbitration is the favored method of settling disputes.”
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.