105 Ill. 2d 450 - Klawonn v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Psychiatric Institute of Washington v. Allen (1986), 165 Ill. App. 3d 923 - Singh v. Air Illinois, Inc. (1988)
3 district · 44 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 104 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Liepelt · Eason v. Dandridge · 5 Ill. 2d 135 - Hall v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. · Hansen v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. · 51 Ill. 2d 428 - Raines v. New York Central Railroad
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In our opinion proof of pecuniary loss, not simple under the best of circumstances, should not be rendered more complex by injecting the question of income tax or other extraneous factors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i] t is [the decedent's] after-tax income, rather than his gross income before taxes, that provides the only realistic measure of his ability to support his family.”
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.