177 Ill. 2d 396 - Olson v. Etheridge’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 202 Ill. 2d 228 - Eychaner v. Gross (2002), 191 Ill. 2d 278 - Jones v. Chicago HMO Ltd. of Illinois (2000)
15 federal appellate · 27 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 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · Carson Pirie Scott & Co. v. Parrett · Karo v. San Diego Symphony Orchestra Ass'n · Bay v. Williams
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The well-established rule in Illinois is that if a contract is entered into for the direct benefit of a third person, the third person may sue for a breach of the contract in his or her own name, even though the third person is a stranger to the contract and the consideration. Joslyn v. Joslyn, 386 Ill. 387, 400 (1944); Carson Pirie Scott & Co. v. Parrett, 346 Ill. 252, 257 (1931). This principle of law is widely accepted throughout the United States, because allowing a third-party beneficiary to sue the promisor directly is said to be manifestly just and practical. See 17A Am. Jur. 2d Contracts §§ 435, 437 (2d ed. 1991). In cases such as this one, it increases judicial efficiency by removing the privity requirement, under which the beneficiary must sue the promisee, who then in turn must sue the promisor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Bayv. Williams, 112 Ill. 91 , 1 N.E. 340 (1884), established the rule in Illinois that the rights of a third-party beneficiary in a contract are subject to immediate vesting and, once vested, cannot be altered or extinguished through a later agreement of the contracting parties without the assent of the beneficiary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the promisor can assert against the beneficiary any contractual defense that the promisor could assert against the promisee.”
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.