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13 Ill. 2d 72 - Fleshner v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis

1958

Citation profile

41
cited by 41 later decisions
2
states following
March 2021
most recently cited

41 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 88 Ill. 2d 300 - People Ex Rel. Fahner v. Carriage Way West, Inc. (1981), 28 Ill. App. 3d 60 - Banks v. United Insurance Co. of America (1975)

41 state decisions

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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 4 Ill. 2d 273 - Geneva Construction Co. v. Martin Transfer & Storage Co. · 12 Ill. 2d 231 - People Ex Rel. Terry v. Fisher · Metropolitan Trust Co. v. Bowman Dairy Co. · 10 Ill. 2d 288 - People Ex Rel. Noren v. Dempsey · 8 Ill. 2d 37 - Krupp v. Chicago Transit Authority

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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““This philosophy of construction precludes the determination of the rights of parties litigant upon the technicalities of pleading when such rights may, within the letter and spirit of the act, be adjudicated on their merits.” Fleshner v. Copeland (1958), 13 Ill. 2d 72, 77 , 147 N.E.2d 329 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 28 Ill. App. 3d 60 - Banks v. United Insurance Co. of America
  2. “acted in response to prevailing dissatisfaction with procedural doctrines which had exalted the role of a trial as a battle of wits and subordinated its function as a means of ascertaining the truth.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 56 Ill. App. 2d 14 - McMillen v. Rydbom

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.