388 Ill. App. 3d 802 - Grimes v. Saikley’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2022
7 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 John Aldens v. Maine · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao · 177 Ill. 2d 166 - Schwartz v. Cortelloni · 209 Ill. 2d 302 - Fritz v. Johnston
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Illinois courts have consistently held a legal-malpractice claim is not assignable because of the personal nature of the attorney-client relationship and the potential for abuse. [Citations omitted.] It has been stated that “that ‘sound public policy prohibits the assignment of legal-malpractice claims since an assignee would be a stranger to the attorney-client relationship, who was owed no duty by the attorney and who suffered no injury from the attorney’s actions.’ ””
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.