11 Ill. App. 2d 441 - Lichter v. Scher’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Lavieri v. Ulysses (1962), 74 Ill. App. 3d 98 - Thorsen v. City of Chicago (1979)
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 People Ex Rel. Eitel v. Lindheimer · 4 Ill. 2d 342 - Orlicki v. McCarthy · Howlett v. Doglio · Wilcox v. Bierd · Dukeman v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Dram Shop Act is unique. *** [I]t is designed to discipline a legal but ill-favored trade. While it applies a remedy to mitigate the evils and dangers that flow from the liquor traffic, it is a remedy not necessarily based on fault or negligence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * where the courts might be zealous is protecting a litigant against divestiture by statute of all or a portion of a claim firmly rooted in our concepts of justice, they will not apply the same zeal to the application of a statute of penal import, regulatory and disciplinary in nature.””
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.