227 Ill. App. 3d 785 - Mazur v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 174 Ill. 2d 513 - Cramer v. Insurance Exchange Agency (1996), Twin City Fire Insurance Company v. Country Mutual Insurance Company (1994)
11 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 56 Ill. App. 3d 111 - Debolt v. Mutual of Omaha · 29 Ill. App. 3d 339 - Ledingham v. Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care of Hospital Service Corp. · 64 Ill. 2d 338 - Ledingham v. Blue Cross Plan for Hospital Care of Hospital Service Corp. · 95 Ill. 2d 441 - Robertson v. Travelers Insurance Co. · 85 Ill. App. 3d 631 - Hoffman v. Allstate Insurance 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) In any action by or against a company wherein there is in issue the liability of a company on a policy or policies of insurance or the amount of the loss payable thereunder, or for an unreasonable delay in settling a claim, and it appears to the court that such action or delay is vexatious and unreasonable, the court may allow as part of the taxable costs in the action reasonable attorney fees, other costs, plus an amount not to exceed any one of the following amounts: (a) 25% of the amount which the court or jury finds such party is entitled to recover against the company, exclusive of all costs; (b) $25,000; (c) the excess of the amount which the court or jury finds such party is entitled to recover, exclusive of costs, over the amount, if any, which the company offered to pay in settlement of the claim prior to the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Section 155 preempts a claim by an insured against his insurer for the breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing, an implied term of a contract of insurance.””
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.