12 Ill. App. 2d 118 - Barango v. E. L. Hedstrom Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably 84 Ill. App. 3d 5 - Millette v. Radosta (1980), LeMaster v. Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (1976)
44 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 9 Ill. 2d 233 - Petterson v. City of Naperville · Schlauder v. Chicago & Southern Traction Co. · Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Warner · 7 Ill. App. 2d 21 - Sims v. Chicago Transit Authority · Scott v. Parlin & Orendorff Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Irrespective of any statutory requirement, a truck operator engaged in towing another vehicle is performing an act of potential danger to other operators and pedestrians, and persons using a dangerous instrumentality are required to exercise care commensurate with the danger to be apprehended, in order to prevent injury to others.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`Yet it is the aim of the law to attain at least a "rough correspondence between the amount awarded as damages and the extent of the suffering," [Restatement of Torts § 903, comment a] or other intangible loss * * *.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether or not the total amount of the verdict falls within the necessarily flexible limits of fair and reasonable compensation or is so large as to shock the judicial conscience.”
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.