Dickson v. Fletcher’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2024
23 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 Baker v. Goldsmith · Forrest City MacHine Works, Inc. v. Aderhold Ex Rel. Cross County Bank · 198 Ill. 2d 156 - In Re Marriage of Kates · Lord v. Mazzanati · Harrison v. Matthews
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whenever under this rule or any statute service is required or permitted to be made upon a party represented by an attorney, the service shall be upon the attorney, except that service shall be upon the party if the court so orders or the action is one in which a final judgment has been entered and the court has continuing jurisdiction. (2) Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subdivision, service upon the attorney or upon the party shall be made by delivering a copy to him or by sending it to him by regular mail or commercial delivery company at his last known address or, if no address is known, by leaving it with the clerk of the court. Delivery of a copy for purposes of this paragraph means handing it to the attorney or to the party[] [[Image here]] (3) If a final judgment or decree has been entered and the court has continuing | (jurisdiction, service upon a party by mail or commercial delivery company shall comply with the requirements of Rule b(d)(8)(A) and (C), respectively.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.