12 Ill. App. 3d 656 - Fugate v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably 117 Ill. App. 3d 933 - Fuller v. Justice (1983), 124 Ill. App. 3d 655 - Nelson v. Commonwealth Edison Co. (1984)
67 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 · 32 Ill. 2d 612 - Suvada v. White Motor Co. · Glanzer v. . Shepard · 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. · 45 Ill. 2d 418 - Williams v. Brown Manufacturing 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[V]erdiets ought to be directed and judgments n.o.v. entered only in those cases in which all of the evidence, when viewed in its aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors movant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand.” 37 Ill. 2d 494, 510 .”
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.