111 Ill. App. 3d 123 - Houser v. Witt’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably 166 Ill. 2d 337 - Pasquale v. Speed Products Engineering (1995), 138 Ill. 2d 533 - Henry v. St. John's Hospital (1990)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 102 Ill. App. 3d 1074 - Wirth v. City of Highland Park · 16 Ill. 2d 201 - Cunningham v. Lawrence · 250 Ill. App. 184 - Schaefer v. Dippel
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.
““There is nothing in the Contribution Act, nor in subsequent case law, to negate the proposition that one seeking contribution must be able to establish the amount to which he is entitled. The Contribution Act is novel in that it is made applicable to joint tort feasors, but as to principles of contribution generally, it is a codification of existing common law.” (Houser v. Witt (1982), 111 Ill. App. 3d 123, 126-27 , 443 N.E.2d 725 .)”
3 later decisions 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.