Zanders v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2016
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Hishon v. King & Spalding · Michel v. United States · Dann v. Johnston · 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 102 Ill. 2d 356 - Ogle v. Fuiten
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.
“The Illinois courts have refused ... attempts to extend tort liability for conduct in the course of a legal proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scheib v. Grant“anything said or written in the course of a legal proceeding is protected by an absolute privilege.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no 'professional responsibility tort' in Illinois.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scheib v. Grant
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.