118 Ill. App. 3d 310 - Bell v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2020
7 federal appellate · 14 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 46 Ill. 2d 288 - Moore v. Jewel Tea Co. · 38 Ill. 2d 528 - McElroy v. Force · 8 Ill. 2d 468 - Parrino v. Landon · 236 Ill. App. 587 - Howard v. Amerson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it should be an easy matter for [the vehicle owner] to bring forth evidence showing that the driver was not his servant or that [the owner] had no business occasioning such use as the driver was making of the car, at the time and place of the accident, while it would ordinarily be a difficult thing for the plaintiff to establish the contrary.”
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.