11 Ill. 2d 233 - Karas v. Snell’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably City of Newport v. Fact Concerts, Inc. (1981), 52 Ill. 2d 27 - Arnolt v. City of Highland Park (1972)
10 federal appellate · 32 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 Troxell v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Grasse v. Dealer's Transport Co. · 1 Ill. 2d 509 - Mississippi River Fuel Corp. v. Illinois Commerce Commission · Gaca v. City of Chicago · Drennan v. Bunn
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This procedure was early recognized in Illinois, together with the logical limitation on the rule that the prior case is conclusive only of matters necessarily included in the adjudication, and is not conclusive on the question of whether the person served with notice is in such relation to the defendant as to be bound. (Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Co. v. Northern Line Packet Co. [1873], 70 Ill. 217 ; Todd v. Chicago [1886], 18 Ill. App. 565 .)” (Emphasis in original.) ( 11 Ill. 2d 233, 247 , 142 N.E.2d 46 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In case any injury to the person 8 8 8 is caused by a member of the police department of a municipality 8 8 8, while the member is engaged in the performance of his duties as [sic] policeman, and without the contributory negligence of the injured person 8 8 8, the municipality 8 8 8 shall indemnify the policeman for any judgment recovered against him as the result of such injury, except where the injury results from the wilful misconduct of the policeman.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The legislation is designed simply to benefit policemen against whom judgments may be rendered, preventing them from being restrained in performing their duty by fear that they might be called upon to pay substantial judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Balark v. Curtin
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.