117 Ill. App. 3d 61 - Sears v. Rutishauser’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ager v. Baltimore Transit Co. · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Schmitz · 64 Ill. App. 3d 719 - Manninger v. Chicago & Northwestern Transportation Co. · Chicago City Railway Co. v. Smith · 37 Ill. App. 3d 710 - Cecil v. Gibson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`hired partisans and in judging their testimony the jury is entitled to know whence they came.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.