254 Ill. App. 3d 560 - Schechter v. Blank’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 177 Ill. 2d 166 - Schwartz v. Cortelloni (1997), 273 Ill. App. 3d 893 - Williams v. Dorsey (1995)
6 federal appellate · 15 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 365
Relies on 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 102 Ill. 2d 356 - Ogle v. Fuiten · 131 Ill. 2d 509 - McLane v. Russell · 166 Ill. App. 3d 986 - Brocato v. Prairie State Farmers Ins. Ass'n
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fact that a third party may benefit from an attorney's representation of his client does not mean that the attorney thereby owes a duty to the third party. [Citation.] As stated above, the law only imposes a duty upon an attorney for the benefit of a third party when the `primary purpose and intent' of the attorney-client relationship is to benefit the third party. It would strain the meaning of the `primary purpose and intent' language in Pelham for a third party to come within that category simply because he may benefit from the attorney's representation of his client." Schechter, 254 Ill.App.3d at 566-67 , 193 Ill.Dec. 947 , 627 N.E.2d 106 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Public policy requires that an attorney, when acting in his professional capacity, be free to advise his client without fear of personal liability to third persons if the advice later proves to be incorrect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynolds v. Lyman
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.