Miles v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 69 Ill. App. 2d 72 - Shramek v. General Motors Corp. · 104 Ill. App. 2d 80 - Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. v. Poths · 32 Ill. App. 2d 214 - Conner v. McGrew · 46 Ill. App. 2d 409 - Barnash v. Rubovits · 109 Ill. App. 2d 417 - Ferguson v. Zeman
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been held many times that a driver of an automobile who does not maintain a proper lookout and use every reasonable precaution to avoid a collision with the traffic ahead is negligent.””
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.