Becharas v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2021
11 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 111 Ill. 2d 416 - Mega v. Holy Cross Hospital · Ogdon v. Gianakos · 4 Ill. 2d 342 - Orlicki v. McCarthy · 95 Ill. 2d 223 - Moore v. Jackson Park Hospital · 73 Ill. 2d 78 - Hupp v. Gray
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When a change in law affects only the remedy or the law of procedure, a right of action will be enforced under the new procedure without regard to whether it accrued before or after the change in the law, and without regard to whether or not suit had been instituted." Becharas v. Cummings, 292 Ill.App.3d 1105, 1107-1108 , 227 Ill.Dec. 172 , 687 N.E.2d 95, 97 , citing In re Pronger, 118 Ill.2d 512, 522 , 115 Ill.Dec. 390 , 517 N.E.2d 1076 (1987), citing Ogdon v. Gianakos, 415 Ill. 591, 597 , 114 N.E.2d 686 (1953).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mk v. Lc · M.K. v. L.C.
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.