10 Ill. App. 3d 356 - Towns v. Kessler’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2012
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 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. · 43 Ill. 2d 1 - Graham v. General U.S. Grant Post No. 2665 · Hodges v. Percival · 11 Ill. 2d 579 - Thillens, Inc. v. Morey · 27 Ill. 2d 245 - Reno v. Maryland Casualty Co.
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.
““Insofar as we can determine, it would promote safety as effectively for insurers to make recommendations on safety practices or to install them as it would for others to do so. Since they are not mere volunteers or interlopers, but might be encouraged to do so by reason of a direct financial interest, it would appear to be logical to encourage them by an immunity from liability under the limited circumstances set forth in this amendment to the Workmen’s Compensation Act.” ( 10 Ill.App.3d 356, 361 , 293 N.E.2d 761, 765 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * whether we look to the law of Florida or Illinois, such a question of public policy is for the legislature not for the courts.” (Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp., 31 Ill.2d 69, 110-111 , 199 N.E.2d 769, 792 .)”
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.