361 Ill. App. 3d 1047 - Stephen v. Huckaba’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably In re Estate of Pawlinski (2011), 358 Ill. Dec. 736 - Cushing v. Greyhound Lines, Inc. (2012)
26 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 184 Ill. 2d 290 - River Park, Inc. v. City of Highland Park · 95 Ill. App. 3d 262 - In Re Estate of Kime · 282 Ill. App. 3d 612 - In Re Estate of Thorp · 306 Ill. App. 3d 367 - Pekin Insurance v. Benson · Reed v. Eastin
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“entered in the administration of an estate, guardianship, or similar proceeding which finally determines a right or status of a party”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Only final orders fit within Rule 304(b)(1).'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`A central reason behind making the time for appeal of such orders mandatory, and not optional, is that certainty as to some issues is a necessity during the lengthy procedure of estate administration.'”
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.