118 Ill. 2d 321 - Witherell v. Weimer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 158 Ill. 2d 240 - Jackson Jordan, Inc. v. Leydig, Voit & Mayer (1994), 199 Ill. 2d 483 - Dillon v. Evanston Hospital (2002)
8 federal appellate · 103 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 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · 85 Ill. 2d 146 - Witherell v. Weimer · 72 Ill. 2d 249 - Walski v. Tiesenga · 60 Ill. 2d 418 - Borowski v. Von Solbrig · 113 Ill. 2d 219 - Bernier v. Burris
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen there is a general verdict and more than one theory is presented, the verdict will be upheld if there was sufficient evidence to sustain either theory, and the defendant, having failed to request special interrogatories, cannot complain.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause [defendants] did not submit special interrogatories, there is no way of knowing on what theory the jury found defendants negligent.”
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.