353 Ill. App. 3d 300 - Lama v. Preskill’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Fidelity National Title Insurance v. Howard Savings Bank (2006), 377 Ill. App. 3d 800 - In Re Estate of Wright (2007)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 144 Ill. 2d 178 - Waste Management, Inc. v. International Surplus Lines Insurance · Hearn v. Rhay · Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc. v. Home Indemnity Co. · 89 Ill. 2d 103 - Consolidation Coal Co. v. Bucyrus-Erie Co. · 197 Ill. 2d 60 - Norskog v. Pfiel
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an agent communicates with the principal’s attorney, the agent speaks as the client, or principal, and his or her communications are protected to the same extent as though the principal was speaking.... Generally, communications made to a legal advisor through one serving as an agent of the client will be privileged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n other words, an implied waiver occurs `where a party voluntarily injects either a factual or legal issue into the case, the truthful resolution of which requires an examination of the confidential communications.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“privilege may be impliedly waived when the client asserts claims or defenses that put his or her communications with the legal advisor at issue in the litigation.”
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.