112 Ill. 2d 187 - Sexton v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably 145 Ill. 2d 353 - People v. Illgen (1991), 154 Ill. 2d 48 - Collins v. Reynard (1992)
6 federal appellate · 63 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 105 Ill. 2d 486 - Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Brochu · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 37 Ill. 2d 352 - Schulenburg v. Signatrol, Inc. · 73 Ill. 2d 100 - Greene v. City of Chicago · 111 Ill. App. 2d 190 - Vermilion County Production Credit Ass'n v. Izzard
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the defendant attorney owed [the] plaintiff a duty of due care arising from the attorney-client relationship, that the defendant breached that duty, and that as a proximate result, the plaintiff suffered injury.”
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.