121 Ill. App. 2d 40 - Snow v. Farwick’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Each of the above questions are evidentiary in nature in that none of them singly are determinative of the rights of the parties. Plaintiff cannot prevail if he was not injured, nor if defendant was not negligent, nor if his injuries were not proximately caused by a negligent act of the defendant. All three items, negligence, causation, and injury are necessary to plaintiffs case. The absence of one of these items would render the interrogatory improper for failure to relate to the question of ultimate fact. *** [T]he basis for recovery of damages is the causal connection between the negligent act or omission and the injury sustained. The law is concerned with negligence as the proximate cause, not of some physical force applied against the person injured, but rather the end result; i.e., the injuries themselves.” (Emphasis added.) Snow, 121 Ill. App. 2d at 46 , 257 N.E.2d at 158-59 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 177 Ill. App. 3d 773 - Noel v. Jones