12 Ill. App. 3d 633 - Bavel v. Cavaness’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 134 Ill. App. 3d 792 - Lakeview Trust & Savings Bank v. Estrada (1985), 43 Ill. App. 3d 973 - Wells v. Lueber (1976)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 32 Ill. 2d 40 - Roth v. Northern Assurance Co. Ltd. · 122 Ill. App. 2d 295 - Reed v. Long · 113 Ill. App. 2d 356 - In Re Estate of Breault · Sachs v. Ohio Nat. Life Ins. · Roberts v. Tunnell
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessaiy for us to determine whether plaintiffs were required to file within nine months from the date the letters of administration were issued, which would have the effect of reducing the applicable two-year limitation period, for it is clear that plaintiffs failed to file either within nine months after the letters were issued or within two years after the cause of action accrued and that they are therefore barred regardless of which limitation period is applied.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Taylor“It is axiomatic that in order to have a civil suit in tort there must be a plaintiff and a defendant and it is likewise clear that the prime requisite as to parties, whether plaintiffs or defendants, is that they be either a natural or artificial person and that the capacity to be sued exists only in persons in being and not those who are dead or have not yet been born.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Section 20 [section 19 of the Limitations Act] makes no distinction as to where the letters shall be issued, referring simply to issuance of letters, and it is clear that the plaintiffs did not initiate their suit within nine months from the date the Indiana estate was opened.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rivera v. Taylor
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.