119 Ill. App. 3d 419 - Pace v. McClow’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 142 Ill. App. 3d 550 - Warren v. LeMay (1986), 133 Ill. App. 3d 119 - Barreto v. City of Waukegan (1985)
4 federal appellate · 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
Relies on 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 98 Ill. 2d 391 - Mort v. Walter · 33 Ill. 2d 514 - Miller v. Pillsbury Co. · 72 Ill. 2d 100 - Warner v. City of Chicago · 106 Ill. App. 3d 1066 - Glover v. City of Chicago
Most-quoted passages
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““Circumstantial evidence is the proof of certain facts and circumstances from which the jury may infer other connected facts which usually and reasonably follow according to the common experience of mankind.” (Emphasis added.) (Pace, 119 Ill. App. 3d at 423-24 , 458 N.E.2d at 8 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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