41 Ill. App. 2d 413 - Cox v. Shupe’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2021
14 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have carefully examined many of the cases involved. It has been held in a number of these cases that where the parties are numerous and it is impracticable to bring all before the Court, service upon a party, who acts for other members of the association as well as themselves, will be sufficient service upon the whole # # * This rule, with only two possible exceptions, has never been extended to law cases. And while it has been sought to extend the rule to law suits, the Courts have resisted such extension.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We note that in the recently revised edition of Nichols Illinois Civil Practice, the author, at Section 281, acknowledges that the so-called class suit or representative suit whereby one sues or is sued on behalf of members of a class or group is an invention of equity, and states categorically that ‘There is no authority for an action at law against a defendant in a representative capacity or for an action at law by a plaintiff in a representative capacity.' ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"To adopt plaintiff's reasoning would, theoretically, place no time limit upon a suit, and would nullify any protection against stale claims. We hold, under the facts of this case, that plaintiff's failure to add the additional parties was not inadvertent, but was inexcusable failure to act with reasonable diligence after defendants' identity became known." ( Cox, 41 Ill.App.2d at 420 , 191 N.E.2d at 253-54 .)”
1 later decision 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.