98 Ill. 2d 478 - Miller v. Lockett’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 312 - People v. Perry (2007), 175 Ill. 2d 435 - People v. Woodard (1997)
3 district · 55 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 Shapiro v. Thompson · United States v. Unicorn Enterprises, Inc. · Eason v. Dandridge · 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston · County of Ventura v. Castro
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a cause of action has arisen in a state or territory out of this State, or in a foreign country, and, by the laws thereof, an action thereon cannot be maintained by reason of the lapse of time, an action thereon shall not be maintained in this State.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the legislature chooses not to amend a statute after a judicial construction, it will be presumed that it has acquiesced in the court's statement of the legislative intent.”
4 later decisions 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.