11 Ill. App. 2d 310 - Thomas v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1980
6 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 Krieger v. Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad · Lerette v. Director General of Railroads · Thomas v. Buchanan · United States Brewing Co. v. Stoltenberg · Pitrowski v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not the province of this court to disturb the verdicts of juries on questions of fact, unless clearly and palpably erroneous. This rule has been so well established that it is not necessary to cite authorities.””
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.