162 Ill. App. 3d 1 - Porter v. Klein Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2011
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 Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · 95 Ill. 2d 211 - Kozak v. RETIREMENT BOARD OF FIREMEN'S ANNUITY AND BENEFIT FUND · 73 Ill. 2d 78 - Hupp v. Gray · Wilcox v. Bierd · 34 Ill. 2d 487 - McDaniel v. Bullard
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.
““In 1928, when Wilcox was decided, an award under the Act was to be disbursed in a proportion which was related to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate. An adult child who was not dependent in any way would share equally with minor children who were fully dependent. In 1955 the legislature amended the Act so that distribution would be based on the actual dependency of the spouse and next of kin. [Citation.] Although the legislature changed the method of distribution, it did not expand the class of beneficiaries. The phrase ‘next of kin’ was unaltered. A reenacted statute will be given the same construction as that given the prior act because by reenactment the legislature is presumed to have intended that the new statute have the same effect. [Citation.] Thus, an amendatory act is not only to be construed as continuing in effect the unchanged portions thereof, but, more significantly, if previously construed terms in the unamended sections are used in the amendment, it is generally concluded that the legislature intended to adopt the prior construction given these terms.” Porter, 162 Ill. App. 3d at 3-4 , 515 N.E.2d at 823 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Every such action shall be brought by and in the names of the personal representatives of such deceased person, and, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse and next of kin of such deceased person * * *." Ill.Rev. Stat.1983, ch. 70, par. 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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