Carden v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2017
5 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · Marshall Field & Co. v. LeBosky
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the stairs were of ordinary construction and there was no allegation of improper lighting or a foreign substance on the stairs. Likewise, there is no allegation that the stairs were inherently dangerous if used properly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nunez v. Diaz
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.