45 Ill. 2d 15 - Fiorito v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2009
8 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 39 Ill. 2d 531 - Fiorito v. Jones
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Upon timely application anyone shall be permitted as of right to intervene in an action: * * * (b) when the representation of the applicant’s interest by existing parties is or may be inadequate and the applicant will or may be bound by a judgment, decree or order in the action; * * (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 110, par. 26.1(1).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`bore the burden of the tax and not whether [the person or entity] bore it as a”
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.