271 Ill. App. 3d 522 - Ignarski v. Norbut’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 284 Ill. App. 3d 577 - Serafin v. Seith (1996), 362 Ill. App. 3d 984 - Bourgonje v. MacHev (2005)
10 federal appellate · 53 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 146 Ill. 2d 263 - Loyola Academy v. S & S Roof Maintenance, Inc. · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 57 Ill. 2d 376 - Carruthers v. B. C. Christopher & Co. · 125 Ill. 2d 203 - Rowe v. State Bank of Lombard · 88 Ill. 2d 444 - Murphy v. Urso
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because legal malpractice claims must be predicated upon an unfavorable result in the underlying suit, no malpractice exists unless counsel’s negligence has resulted in the loss of the underlying action. Plaintiff is required to establish that but for the negligence of counsel, he would have successfully prosecuted or defended against the claim in the underlying suit. Damages will not be presumed, and the client bears'the burden of proving he suffered a loss as a result of the attorney’s alleged negligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"(1) the existence of an attorney-client relationship which establishes a duty on the part of the attorney; (2) a negligent act or omission constituting a breach of that duty; (3) proximate cause establishing that `but for' the attorney's negligence, the plaintiff would have prevailed in the underlying action; and (4) damages." Ignarski v. Norbut, 271 Ill. App.3d 522, 525 , 207 Ill.Dec. 829 , 648 N.E.2d 285 (1995).”
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.