85 Ill. App. 3d 532 - Fleming v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
2
states following
June 1998
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 28 Ill. 2d 116 - The People v. Carpenter · 67 Ill. 2d 296 - Ray v. Winter · 58 Ill. 2d 289 - Vendo Company v. Stoner · Seuss v. Schukat · Vanmeter v. Goldfarb
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the trial of any action in which any party sues or defends as the representative of a deceased person or person under a legal disability, no adverse party or person directly interested in the action shall be allowed to testify on his or her own behalf to any conversation with the deceased or person under legal disability or to any event which took place in the presence of the deceased or person under legal disability ***.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 110, par. 8 — 201. “In any action or proceeding by or against any surviving partner or partners, or joint contractor or joint contractors, no adverse party or person adversely interested in the event thereof, shall, by virtue of Section 8 — 101 of this Act, be rendered a competent witness to testify to any admission or conversation by any deceased partner or joint contractor, unless some one or more of the surviving partners or joint contractors were also present at the time of such admission or conversation; and in every action or proceeding a party to the same who has contracted with an agent of the adverse party — the agent having since died — shall not be a competent witness as to any admission or conversation between himself or herself and such agent, unless such admission or conversation with the deceased agent was had or made in the presence of a surviving agent or agents of such adverse party, and then only except where the conditions are such that under the provisions of Sections 8— 201 and 8 — 401 of this Act he or sh”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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