13 Ill. 2d 431 - Kennerly v. Shell Oil Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably 33 Ill. 2d 316 - Larson v. Commonwealth Edison Co. (1965), 55 Ill. 2d 121 - Halberstadt v. Harris Trust & Savings Bank (1973)
22 federal appellate · 72 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 John Griffiths & Son Co. v. National Fireproofing Co. · Schultz v. Henry Ericsson Co. · Claffy v. Chicago Dock & Canal 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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * it was not the intention of the legislature that the owner should be liable regardless of who was in charge of the work, but to hold the person in charge of the work responsible regardless of whether it was the owner, contractor, sub-contractor, foreman, or other person having charge of the building project. * * * * * * * * * “ * * * the plaintiff has failed to prove an essential element in this case, namely, that the United States was actually in charge of the project so as to bring himself within the provisions of the Scaffolding Act; * * (Emphasis supplied.)”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.