305 Ill. App. 3d 689 - Wegner v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 378 Ill. App. 3d 280 - Will v. Northwestern University (2007), 392 Ill. App. 3d 1059 - Kovitz Shifrin Nesbit, P.C. v. Rossiello (2009)
9 federal appellate · 29 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 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent · 78 Ill. 2d 217 - Rhoades v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · Oughton v. Parkhurst · 260 Ill. App. 3d 66 - Kannewurf v. Johns · 93 Ill. App. 3d 390 - Department of Public Works v. Exchange National Bank
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“justify a finding that the entire contract fee is the reasonable value of services rendered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the time and labor required, the attorney's skill and standing, the nature of the cause, the novelty and difficulty of the subject matter, the attorney's degree of responsibility in managing the case, the usual and customary charge for that type of work in the community, and the benefits resulting to the client.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he trial judge has broad discretion in matters of attorney fees due to the advantage of close observation of the attorney's work and the trial judge's deeper understanding of the skill and time required in the case.”
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.