Vaughn v. Speaker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that action filed against a dead person that did not name the decedent’s personal representative did not toll the statute of limitations because “a dead person cannot be a party to a suit and a suit against a dead person does not invoke the jurisdiction of the trial court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Vaughn v. Speaker
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 160×
• Miss. Dept. of Public Safety v. Stringer
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-06-03· cited 63×
• Lisowski v. MacNeal Memorial Hospital Association
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-03-24· cited 24×
• Muhammed v. Welch
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2004-02-25· cited 17×
• Lisowski v. MACNEAL MEMORIAL HOSP. ASS'N
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2008-03-24· cited 14×
• Matter of Estate of Wagler
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-08-23· cited 7×
• Peterson v. Schiek Motor Express
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-11-15· cited 2×
• Clark v. Weeks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-08-23· cited 1×
• Public Safety, Mississippi Department of v. Olur v. Stringer
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-01-08
• Swancy v. Tjon
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2004-02-25
• Nuppenau v. Meyer
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-06-01
• Vaughn v. Speaker
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-10-22

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dickirson v. the Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1925-12-16· cited 41×
• Kinsey v. Thompson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1963-11-21· cited 39×
• Bavel v. Cavaness
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1973-07-10· cited 27×
• Wells v. Lueber
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-11-17· cited 22×
• DeSeve v. Ladd Enterprises, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-10-23· cited 20×
• McCue v. Colantoni
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-01-31· cited 11×
• Zaayer v. Axel
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1981-12-10· cited 9×
• Rivera v. Taylor
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1975-09-26· cited 9×
• Loughran v. a & M Moving & Storage Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-01-14· cited 8×