117 Ill. App. 3d 1065 - Marcin v. Kipfer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably 130 Ill. App. 3d 457 - Lebrecht v. Tuli (1985), 157 Ill. 2d 29 - Roach v. Springfield Clinic (1993)
40 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 Irvin v. Dowd · 85 Ill. 2d 1 - Alvis v. Ribar · 40 Ill. 2d 522 - The People v. Williams · 351 Ill. App. 11 - Signa v. Alluri · 77 Ill. 2d 229 - People v. Hyche
Most-quoted passages
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““ ‘The trend of authority is to exclude from juries all persons who by reason of their business or social relations, past or present, with either of those parties, could be suspected of possible bias ***.’ ” (Marcin v. Kipfer (1983), 117 Ill. App. 3d 1065, 1068 , 454 N.E.2d 370 , quoting R. Hunter, Trial Handbook for Illinois Lawyers §15.14 (5th ed. 1983).)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Here, for the two jurors to have found for plaintiff, they would have had to find their personal physician to have been incompetent in his treatment of decedent. Although the traditional close relationship of trust and confidence between patient and physician may no longer be as strong as it once was, it still has considerable strength.” (Martin v. Kipfer, 117 Ill. App. 3d at 1067-68 , 454 N.E.2d at 372 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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