15 Ill. 2d 564 - Hardwick v. Munsterman’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2025
15 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 106 F. Supp. 461 - Fontana v. Pennsylvania R. Co. · 30 Cal. 2d 496 - Dodds v. Stellar · Lewis v. Railroad Retirement Board · 11 N.J. Super. 242 - Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. v. Batts · 2 Ill. App. 2d 191 - Manion v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act for a 25% fee provide the only basis for recovery of plaintiffs attorney’s fees as against the employer. There was no contractual relationship between the employee *** or his attorney *** and the [employer]. The inclusion of the provision of payment by the employer of a pro-rata share of costs, together with attorney’s fees in section 5 of the Workmen’s Compensation Act as amended in 1957, constitutes the only basis of the employer’s liability to share the employee’s burden of expenditures for recovery against a third party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The State Department shall have a charge upon all claims, demands and causes of action for injuries to an applicant for or recipient of assistance for the total amount of assistance provided for the recipient ■x- * * from the time of injury to the date of recovery upon such claim, demand or cause of action. * * * The charge shall attach to any * * * judgment * * * entered and to any money * * * which may be recovered on account of such claim, demand, cause of action * -X- * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grieves v. Levy““By the furnishing of assistance the Illinois Public Aid Commission became subrogated to the right of the plaintiff-recipient in any recovery for his personal injury in the amount of assistance furnished during the period in which the recipient had a cause of action. He is presumed to know of the commission’s possible right to subrogation when he accepts benefits under the Public Assistance Code.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Grieves v. Levy
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.