119 Ill. 2d 542 - Harris v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 209 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 265 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), 117 Wash. 2d 37 - Olympic Steamship Co., Inc. v. Centennial Ins. Co. (1991)
11 federal appellate · 6 district · 209 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 112 Ill. 2d 378 - Scott & Fetzer Co. v. Montgomery Ward & Co. · 108 Ill. 2d 243 - Glazewski v. Coronet Insurance Co. · 74 Ill. 2d 213 - Barthel v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad · 95 Ill. 2d 68 - McClure Engineering Associates, Inc. v. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. · Jackson v. First National Bank
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 265 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a dog or other animal, without provocation, attacks or injures any person who is peaceably conducting himself in any place where he may lawfully be, the owner of such dog or other animal is liable in damages to such person for the full amount of the injury sustained.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 8, par. 366.)”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“"[T]o provide coverage under the statute for plaintiffs who, by virtue of their relationship to the owner of the dog or other animal or the lack of any such relationship, may not have any way of knowing or avoiding the risk that the animal poses to them." Harris, 119 Ill.2d at 547 , 116 Ill.Dec. at 704 , 519 N.E.2d at 919 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““[W]here a person rents a horse and understands and expressly accepts the risks of using the horse, he cannot recover damages from the person who rented the horse to him under section 16 of the Animal Control Act.” Harris v. Walker (1988), 119 Ill. 2d 542, 548 , 519 N.E.2d 917, 919 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.