Champion v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2006 · most notably Schneiderman v. Interstate Transit Lines, Inc. (1946), 19 Ill. 2d 108 - McFail v. Braden (1960)
5 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 Blackburn v. Crawfords · Siegel v. A. H. Andrews & Co. · Miller v. Pennington · Craufurd v. Blackburn · DeWolf v. Strader
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the transaction between the attorney and client is the preparation of a deed or a contract in accordance with the directions of a client, and no legal advice is asked or required, the reasons or motives moving the client to make the deed or contract, if stated to the attorney, are not privileged. [Citations.] *** [Wigmore] announces the rule to be, that the fact of the execution of a will, and its contents, are within the rule during the life of the testator, but the rule ceases at his death, and the attorney may then disclose all that affects the execution and tenor of the will.” 228 Ill. 87, 98-99 , 81 N.E. 808, 812 .”
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.