11 Ill. 2d 525 - Bernier v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 156 Ill. App. 3d 483 - Ingrassia v. Ingrassia (1987), 159 Ill. App. 3d 327 - In Re Marriage of Betts (1987)
36 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 Cramer v. Illinois Commercial Men's Ass'n · Higgins v. Bullock · Bernier v. Schaefer
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the proper giving of notice can now be frustrated by the mere allegation of the defendant that he did not receive it, then the giving of notice by mail cannot be relied upon even though the rules specify such a method.”
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.