113 Ill. 2d 482 - Goldberg v. Ruskin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 117 Ill. 2d 230 - Siemieniec v. Lutheran General Hospital (1987), 179 Ill. 2d 24 - People v. Digirolamo (1997)
4 federal appellate · 31 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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Becker v. Schwartz · 31 Cal. 3d 220 - Turpin v. Sortini · 108 Ill. 2d 541 - People v. Correa · 67 Ill. 2d 348 - Renslow v. Mennonite Hospital
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the value of life and the inherent difficulty of ascertaining a cognizable injury for which damages may be meaningfully awarded.”
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.