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2004

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
September 2025
most recently cited

27 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 357 Ill. App. 3d 786 - Neiman v. Economy Preferred Insurance (2005), 401 Ill. App. 3d 1006 - Fitch v. McDermott, Will and Emery, LLP (2010)

27 state decisions

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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 76 Ill. 2d 427 - Burtell v. First Charter Service Corp. · People v. K.J. · In re M.K. · People v. Marquez · 271 Ill. App. 3d 820 - In Interest of MK

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Supreme Court Rule 303(b)(2) [citation], requires a notice of appeal to `specify the judgment or part thereof or other orders appealed from and the relief sought from the reviewing court'. In Burtell v. First Charter Service Corp., 76 Ill.2d 427 [3] Ill.Dec. 178, 394 N.E.2d 380 ], (1979), our supreme court noted that `the appeal from a subsequent final judgment”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[Citation.]' Burtell, 76 Ill.2d at 433 [ 31 Ill. Dec. 178 , 394 N.E.2d 380 ]. Furthermore, `it is generally accepted that a notice of appeal is to be liberally construed.' Burtell, 76 Ill.2d at 433 [ 31 Ill.Dec. 178 , 394 N.E.2d 380 ].”
    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.