102 Ill. App. 2d 373 - Burkitt v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably 19 Ill. App. 3d 973 - George F. Mueller & Sons, Inc. v. Ostrowski (1974), 15 Ill. App. 3d 599 - Hall v. Hall (1973)
32 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.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The following judgments and orders are appealable without the finding required for appeals under paragraph (a) of this rule: * * * (3) A judgment or order granting or denying any of the relief prayed in a petition under section 72 of the Civil Practice Act (Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 110, par. 72).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]o mean that even though there may have been a lack of due diligence in presenting a defense, a default judgment may nonetheless be set aside if justice and good conscience requires it.” (Burkitt v. Downey (3rd Dist. 1968), 102 Ill. App. 2d 373, 377 , 242 N.E.2d 901 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.