133 Ill. App. 2d 755 - Worrick v. Flora’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably 131 Ill. 2d 145 - HPI Health Care Services, Inc. v. Mt. Vernon Hospital, Inc. (1989), 281 Pa. Super. 560 - Yaindl v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. Standard Pump-Aldrich Division (1980)
4 federal appellate · 19 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 Doremus v. Hennessy · 18 Ill. App. 2d 404 - W. P. Iverson & Co. v. Dunham Manufacturing Co. · May v. Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co. · 45 Wash. 2d 586 - Hein v. Chrysler Corp. · Tage E. Pearson v. Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, an Ohio Corporation
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.
““[T]he theory of liability depends on considerations of privilege or justification. Such considerations involve generally accepted or acceptable standards of conduct. 6 e ” * * °. Whether his conduct was privileged or justified does not depend upon plaintiff’s misconduct or absence thereof but upon whether defendant was acting for personal interests of his own and contrary to those of the corporation.” 133 Ill. App. 2d 755, 758 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t seems to be plaintiff's theory that describing [defendant's] conduct as intentional and without just cause is a factual allegation of sufficient wrongful conduct.... The complaint is entirely lacking in any facts from which it may reasonably be inferred that [defendant] was acting other than in accord with his usual and customary duties on behalf of the corporation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Hein v. Chrysler Corp., 45 Wash.2d 586 , 277 P.2d 708 (1954), illustrates what we believe to be the proper application of the rule. In the Hein case the Zone Manager’s conduct was considered wrongful when he endeavored to secure the termination of a dealer’s , contract in order that the dealership be available for a relative of the Zone Manager.”
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.