49 Ill. App. 3d 334 - Hecht v. Hecht’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2014
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 Mammoth Oil Co. v. United States · 94 Ill. App. 2d 43 - Levine v. Pascal · 45 Ill. 2d 19 - Roth v. Roth · 108 Ill. App. 2d 240 - Stanard v. Stanard · 38 Ill. App. 3d 1 - Rosenbaum v. Rosenbaum
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.
““While the burden of proving lack of provocation remains at all times with the complaining party, the burden of going forward shifts to the defendant party once there has been a denial, explicit or implicit * * * that the actions were provoked. This is true even if the defending party has denied in the answer that the actions were not provoked.” (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions 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.