321 Ill. App. 3d 571 - Keef v. Widuch’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2023
3 federal appellate · 14 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 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge · 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority · 166 Ill. 2d 188 - Boyd v. Travelers Insurance · 185 Ill. 2d 380 - LaFever v. Kemlite Co. · 169 Ill. 2d 110 - Mt. Zion State Bank & Trust v. Consolidated Communications, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the unique circumstances of this case, workers' compensation attorneys should have a duty to clients to advise them about the possibility of third-party actions and either to investigate such claims or to advise the clients to consult other counsel about such claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Donkle v. Lind
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.