102 Ill. 2d 356 - Ogle v. Fuiten’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 126 Ill. 2d 78 - McGrath v. Fahey (1988), 136 Ill. 2d 302 - 2314 Lincoln Park West Condominium Ass'n v. Mann, Gin, Ebel & Frazier, Ltd. (1990)
14 federal appellate · 172 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 56 Cal. 2d 583 - Lucas v. Hamm · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · Heyer v. Flaig · 37 Ill. 2d 273 - Miller v. DeWitt · 57 Ill. 2d 7 - Winnett v. Winnett
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or a nonclient to succeed in a negligence action against an attorney, he must prove that the primary purpose and intent of the attorney-client relationship itself was to benefit or influence the third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“because the testators' intent ... shows that plaintiffs were to benefit only under certain circumstances [common disaster] which did not occur,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the intent of the testators to benefit plaintiffs is not, as required, ... `clearly evident.'”
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.