80 Ill. App. 2d 25 - Messenger v. Rutherford’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 119 Ill. App. 3d 376 - Palatine National Bank v. Charles W. Greengard Associates, Inc. (1983), 50 Ill. App. 3d 817 - In Re Estate of Ito (1977)
2 federal appellate · 23 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"All claims against the estate of a decedent, except expenses of administration and surviving spouse's or child's award, not filed within 7 months [1] from the issuance of letters testamentary or of administration, are barred as to the estate which has been inventoried within 7 months from the issuance of letters." (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 3, par. 204.)”
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.