212 Ill. 2d 1 - Horwitz v. Holabird & Root’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 223 Ill. 2d 49 - DeLuna v. Burciaga (2006), 376 Ill. App. 3d 1006 - Kopley Group v. L.P. v. Sheridan Edgewater Properties, Ltd. (2007)
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 62 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · 156 Ill. 2d 511 - Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital · 191 Ill. 2d 493 - Michigan Avenue National Bank v. County of Cook · 165 Ill. 2d 107 - Espinoza v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the attorney-client relationship, clients are generally bound by their attorneys' acts or omissions during the course of the legal representation that fall within the apparent scope of their attorneys' authority.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“As fiduciaries, attorneys owe to their clients 'the basic obligations of agency: loyalty and obedience.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re Carr · In re Lindsey““ ‘The practice of law is a public trust. Lawyers are the trustees of the system by which citizens resolve disputes among themselves, punish and deter crime, and determine their relative rights and responsibilities toward each other and their government. Lawyers therefore are responsible for *** maintaining public confidence in the system of justice by acting competently and with loyalty to the best interests of their clients; by working to improve that system to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing society; and by defending the integrity of the judicial system against those who would corrupt, abuse or defraud it.’ 134 Ill. 2d Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, Preamble, at 470.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.