14 Ill. 2d 284 - Allen v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 186 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess (1986), 48 Ill. 2d 580 - Fooden v. Board of Governors (1971)
183 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 7 Ill. 2d 231 - Pope v. Speiser · Work v. Cowhick · Ward v. Sampson · Reconstruction Finance Corp. v. Lucius · 346 Ill. App. 399 - Grant v. Reilly
Most-quoted passages
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“"Summary judgment procedure is an important tool in the administration of justice. Its use in a proper case, wherein is presented no genuine issue as to any material fact, is to be encouraged. Allen v. Meyer, 14 Ill.2d 284, 292 , 152 N.E.2d 576 . The use of summary judgment procedure in the Probate Court where there is no genuine issue as to any material fact should be encouraged."”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Before proceeding further, we should like to comment that the trial court's procedural handling of this case was correct beyond technical argument. Rule 15 of this court expressly provides that discovery depositions may be considered in passing upon motions for summary judgment, * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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