252 Ill. App. 3d 611 - Stein v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 277 Ill. App. 3d 689 - Espevik v. Kaye (1996), 338 Ill. App. 3d 864 - Brown v. Ryan (2003)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 42 Ill. 2d 45 - House of Vision, Inc. v. Hiyane · 145 Ill. 2d 166 - Harris Trust & Savings Bank v. Donovan · Northern Trust Co. v. Tarre · 146 Ill. App. 3d 684 - Tishman Midwest Management Corp. v. Wayne Jarvis, Ltd.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“solely by reference to the plain language of the trust itself, and extrinsic evidence may be admitted to aid interpretation only if the document is ambiguous and the settlor's intent cannot be ascertained.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was a finding by the court that the testator was primarily concerned with the comfort of the beneficiary and intended that she have unencumbered use of the trust for that purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is my express purpose that any distributions to or for * * * [the daughter's benefit] * * * from her share be used only to supplement other such benefits.”
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.