120 Ill. App. 2d 248 - Keel v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 128 Ill. App. 3d 84 - Prendergast v. Cox (1984), 76 Ill. App. 3d 898 - Prince v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. (1979)
29 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“° ° there is nothing from the amount of the verdict, considered in relation to the facts and circumstances of die case, indicating that the verdict may not have been a compromise of liability against damages. Accordingly, we believe that a new trial ought to be held on all issues.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.