150 Ill. App. 3d 350 - Leoris v. Dicks’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 127 Ill. 2d 333 - O'HARA v. Ahlgren (1989), 222 Ill. 2d 276 - Vine Street Clinic v. HealthLink, Inc. (2006)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 41 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 51 Cal. App. 3d 590 - Weiss v. Marcus · 93 Ill. App. 3d 517 - Corti v. Fleisher · In re the Estate of Rothko · 37 Ill. App. 2d 137 - Talley v. Alton Box Board Co. · 4 Ill. 2d 561 - Schnackenberg v. Towle
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where enforcement of an illegal contract is sought, the courts will aid neither party but will leave them where they have placed themselves since the parties are pari delicto and can recover nothing under the contract. [Citation.] Therefore, we find that plaintiff is foreclosed from recovery on the theory of quantum meruit because unprofessional conduct, as exhibited here, clearly violated stated canons of ethics that bar recovery. [Citation.] Accordingly, we find that plaintiff’s conduct, which clearly violated established canons of ethics, warrants forfeiture of his attorney fees.” (Leoris, 150 Ill. App. 3d at 354 , 501 N.E.2d at 904 .)”
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.