75 Ill. 2d 457 - McCabe v. Burgess’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 100 - Avery v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2005), 87 Ill. 2d 7 - Miner v. Gillette Co. (1981)
71 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 69 Ill. 2d 320 - Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School · 49 Ill. 2d 338 - The People v. McCabe · Montgomery v. Rumsfeld · City of New York v. International Pipe & Ceramics Corp. · Carey v. Greyhound Bus Co.
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An action may be maintained as a class action in any court of this state and a party may sue or be sued as a representative party of the class only if the court finds: (1) The class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable. (2) There are questions of fact or law common to the class, which common questions predominate over any questions affecting only individual members. (3) The representative parties will fairly and adequately protect the interest of the class. (4) The class action is an appropriate method for the fair and efficient adjudication of the controversy."”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In a class action it is appropriate to litigate the questions of law or fact common to all members of the class and after the determination of the common questions to determine in an anciliary proceeding or proceedings the questions that may be peculiar to individual class members.” McCabe v. Burgess (1979), 75 Ill. 2d 457, 466 , 389 N.E.2d 565 , citing Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School (1977), 69 Ill. 2d 320, 340-42 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““trial court specifically found that the question of law common to the members of the purported class had been decided in People v. McCabe [ 49 Ill. 2d 338 , 275 N.E.2d 407 (1971)] and People v. Meyerowitz [ 61 Ill.2d 200 , 335 N.E.2d 1 (1975)]. The court also found that a class action would not in any way relieve the court or the litigants of any burden or time expended in resolving the factual questions material to the claimants’ right to recover and that the factual questions that would be involved would require the examination of each individual ease. Thus the court found that there were no unresolved questions of law or fact common to the members of the class and that maintaining the class action would not result in an increased efficiency in the adjudication of the claims.””
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.