130 Ill. App. 3d 1018 - Cox v. Stutts’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2012
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Neering v. I.C.R.R. Co. · 66 Ill. App. 2d 407 - Anderson Ex Rel. Anderson v. Jones · 83 Ill. App. 3d 1010 - Seibutis v. Smith · 54 Ill. App. 3d 368 - Hook v. Heim
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) If the actor’s conduct is a substantial factor in bringing about harm to another, the fact that the actor neither foresaw nor should have foreseen the extent of the harm or the manner in which it occurred does not prevent him from being liable. (2) The actor’s conduct may be held not to be a legal cause of harm to another where after the event and looking back from the harm to the actor’s negligent conduct, it appears to the court highly extraordinary that it should have brought about the harm.””
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.