77 Ill. 2d 335 - Ford v. Newman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably First National Bank v. Canton Council of Campfire Girls, Inc. (1981), Palmer v. Beverly Enterprises (1987)
5 federal appellate · 34 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 Mahan v. Howell · 49 Ill. 2d 504 - The People v. Saiken · In re the Construction of the Will of Upjohn · In Re the Accounting of Leask · 15 E.H. Smith 11 - New York Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Viele
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[In 1941], the following statute was in effect in Illinois: ‘A child lawfully adopted is deemed a descendant of the adopting parent for purposes of inheritance, except that the adopted child shall not take property from the lineal or collateral kindred of the adopting parent per stirpes or property expressly limited to the body of the adopting parent.’ (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, ch. 3, par. 165.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the case at bar, the settlor did not expressly refer to adoptees in the instrument. She did, however, with the aid of counsel, utilize the term ‘lawful issue,’ to refer to the issue of her two sons. We must examine how, on the date of execution, the law defined ‘lawful issue’ as the settlor employed that term.” (Ford v. Newman (1979), 77 Ill. 2d 335, 339 , 396 N.E.2d 539, 540 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under the law of [Illinois], adopted children were deemed not to be included as ‘lawful issue’ of the settlor’s sons within the trust provision in this case. Thus, the legal meaning attributed to the language used served to exclude adoptees, absent other evidence of a contrary intention.” (Ford v. Newman (1979), 77 Ill. 2d 335, 340 , 396 N.E.2d 539, 541 .)”
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.