86 Ill. 2d 314 - Schlessinger v. Olsen’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 100 - Avery v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2005), 114 Ill. 2d 278 - Charles Hester Enterprises, Inc. v. Illinois Founders Insurance (1986)
35 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 Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · United States v. Larionoff · Nicholas J. Larionoff, Jr. v. The United States of America, Nicholas J. Larionoff, Jr. v. The United States of America · Jimenez v. Weinberger
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Recent decisions *** have expressed a strong preference for early certification as required by the explicit language of [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(c)(1)], [Citations.] It has been suggested that the rationale of these cases, if carried to a logical extreme, would require certification to precede even disposition of motions [to dismiss]. [Citation.] However, where, as here, defendants’ summary judgment motions allow the court to explore and define the proper range of judicial inquiry on the allegations of the complaint, disposition of those motions before certification is appropriate.’ ” Schlessinger, 86 Ill. 2d at 320 , quoting Garcia, 80 F.R.D. at 260 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[S]ome decision on class certification must be made prior to proceeding on the merits. The statute provides that this finding be made ‘as soon as practicable after the commencement of an action.’ Logically, that means prior to ruling on a motion which is dispositive of the merits of the action.” (Schlessinger, 86 Ill. 2d at 317 , 427 N.E.2d at 1243 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““As soon as practicable after the commencement of an action brought as a class action, the court shall determine by order whether it may be so maintained and describe those whom the court finds to be members of the class.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 110, par. 57.3(a).)”
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.