8 Ill. App. 2d 239 - Calvert v. Dillman’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2002
8 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 Wilcox v. Bierd · Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Baddeley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate.” ( 1853 Ill. Laws 97 (“An Act requiring compensation for causing death by wrongful act, neglect or default”).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule is correctly stated in James’ Illinois Probate Law and Practice, Sec. 178.5(e) as follows: “ ‘The death of a surviving spouse before obtaining the award does not defeat the right to the award and the right may be asserted by her representative. This was true under the former law and it is true under the Probate Act.’ ””
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.