68 Ill. 2d 49 - In Re Stillo’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably 125 Ill. 2d 531 - In Re Himmel (1988), 175 Ill. 2d 504 - In Re Rinella (1997)
33 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 14 Ill. 2d 338 - In Re Eaton · In Re Information to Discipline Certain Attorneys of Sanitary · People ex rel. Black v. Smith · 29 Ill. 2d 458 - In Re Royal · In Re Rosenberg
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For an attorney to settle a personal injury case and direct the cashing of settlement checks without authorization by his client is itself an impropriety requiring discipline. (In re Agin [1970], 45 Ill. 2d 126, 131 .) When a lawyer, further, converts a client’s funds to his own personal use he commits an act involving moral turpitude, and, in the absence of mitigating circumstances, such conversion is a gross violation of the attorney’s oath, calling for the attorney’s disbarment. (In re Royal [1963], 29 Ill. 2d 458, 464 ; In re Ahern [1962], 26 Ill. 2d 104, 110 .) ‘Other offenses might be excused, but conversion to his own use of the property of his client is an offense that cannot in any degree be countenanced.’ (People ex rel. Black v. Smith [1919], 290 Ill. 241, 251 .)” ( 68 Ill. 2d 49, 54 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Turner
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.