201 Ill. App. 3d 232 - Claxton v. Thackston’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably 298 Ill. App. 3d 396 - Chicago Trust Co. v. Cook County Hospital (1998), 348 Ill. App. 3d 541 - Pietro v. Marriott Senior Living Services, Inc. (2004)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Upjohn Company v. United States · 87 Ill. 2d 167 - People Ex Rel. Scott v. Silverstein · 89 Ill. 2d 103 - Consolidation Coal Co. v. Bucyrus-Erie Co. · 30 Ill. 2d 456 - The People v. Ryan · 51 Ill. 2d 46 - People v. Adam
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the privilege protects only the attorney-client communication itself[, o]pposing counsel is free to question a member of the control group about the underlying facts which were communicated.”
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.