289 Ill. App. 3d 116 - Doe v. Roe’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 193 Ill. 2d 433 - Neade v. Portes (2000), 316 Ill. App. 3d 340 - Owens v. McDermott, Will & Emery (2000)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 43 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 159 Ill. 2d 469 - Illinois Graphics Co. v. Nickum · 118 Ill. 2d 306 - Midland Hotel Corp. v. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. · 98 Ill. 2d 546 - Rickey v. Chicago Transit Authority · 143 Ill. 2d 296 - Corgan v. Muehling · 139 Ill. 2d 501 - Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, in the course of his professional dealings with a client, an attorney places personal interests above the interests of the client, the attorney is in breach of his fiduciary duty by reason of the conflict,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Carr · In re Lindsey““[T]he attorney-client relationship gives rise to certain duties owed by the attorney to the client without regard to the specific terms of any contract of engagement. Among the fiduciary duties imposed upon an attorney are those of fidelity, honesty, and good faith in both the discharge of contractual obligations to, and professional dealings with, a client. [Citation.] When, in the course of his professional dealings with a client, an attorney places personal interests above the interests of the client, the attorney is in breach of his fiduciary duty by reason of the conflict. [Citation.] Breach of fiduciary duty by an attorney gives rise to an action on behalf of the client for proximately resulting damages. [Citation.]” Doe, 289 111. App. 3d at 122-23.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In determining the range of compensable damages under the law of contracts, Illinois follows the rule in Hadley v. Baxendale, 9 Ex. 341, 156 Eng. Rep. 145 (1854), that recoverable damages are those that naturally result from the breach or are the consequence of special or unusual circumstances that are in the reasonable contemplation of the parties when making the contract. [Citation.] Recovery for mental distress is ‘excluded unless *** the contract or the breach is of such a kind that serious emotional disturbance was a particularly likely result.’ [Citations.]” Doe, 289 Ill. App. 3d at 130 , 681 N.E.2d at 650 .”
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.