21 Ill. 2d 458 - In Re Bodkin’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2000
16 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 People Ex Rel. Illinois State Bar Ass'n v. Peoples Stock Yards State Bank · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Jones · People Ex Rel. Illinois State Bar Ass'n v. Schafer · Fink v. Peden · People Ex Rel. Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Tinkoff
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“distinguished between services rendered by an insurance adjuster on behalf of his company and services rendered by one who negotiates a claim against the compa-ny____The court stated ... [that] “appellants’ lay claim adjusters work only for their several employers, who hire and retain them with their eyes open. When they deal with claimants it is on an adversary basis, not a representative basis implying a fiduciary relation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Creasy
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.