13 Ill. App. 3d 254 - Smith v. Realcoa Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 73 Ill. 2d 100 - Greene v. City of Chicago (1978), 73 Ill. 2d 90 - Hernandez v. Power Construction Co. (1978)
33 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 68 Ill. App. 2d 283 - Buckler v. Sinclair Refining Co. · 43 Ill. App. 2d 267 - Wright v. Royse · 10 Ill. 2d 87 - Hudson v. Leverenz · Morrison Hotel & Restaurant Co. v. Kirsner · 37 Ill. App. 2d 193 - Battershell v. Bowman Dairy 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a party offers testimony of a person not listed on an interrogatory, the trial court has power to exclude the witness in its discretion, but exclusion is not mandatory. The trial court has the duty to ascertain the type of witness and content of the evidence, good faith of the party calling the witness, and degree of surprise and prejudice to the other party, including prior knowledge of the witness by the other party.””
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.