111 Ill. 2d 341 - Casey v. Baseden’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 213 Ill. 2d 210 - In Re Detention of Swope (2004), 114 Ill. 2d 232 - Dyback v. Weber (1986)
4 federal appellate · 60 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 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Central Vermont Railway Company v. Mary Theresa White L · 43 Ill. 2d 54 - Rozny v. Marnul · 85 Ill. 2d 1 - Alvis v. Ribar · 20 Ill. 2d 301 - Saunders v. Schultz · 91 Ill. 2d 456 - Long v. City of New Boston
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While it is possible that the long form of the instruction could, in remote circumstances, prove confusing to a jury when only two parties are involved in an accident, we do not think this is such a case. Other instructions did not allude to the possible acts of third parties; they clearly instructed the jury on how to apportion damages if it found that both parties were negligent and advised the jurors to calculate the comparative negligence of the parties assuming that `100% represents [their] total combined negligence.' Viewed in their entirety, the instructions fully and fairly apprised the jury of the relevant principles [citation] relating to treatment of the plaintiff's fault." Casey, 111 Ill.2d at 348-49 , 95 Ill.Dec. at 534 , 490 N.E.2d at 7 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“° ° As the appellate court correctly held, both logic and fairness dictate that the defendant, who stands to benefit from a showing that the plaintiff was negligent, should have the burden of persuading the trier of fact on that issue. (Citation omitted.) It would be anomalous to require that the defendant allege the plaintiff’s negligence but to place the burden of proof on that issue on the plaintiff.” Casey v. Baseden, 111 Ill. 2d 341, 345-47 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell v. State““It need not be the only cause, nor the last or nearest cause. It is sufficient if it concurs with some other cause acting at the same time, which in combination with it causes the injury.””
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.