14 Ill. App. 3d 297 - Gainer v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1990
17 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 10 Ill. 2d 28 - Paul Harris Furniture Co. v. Morse · 53 Ill. App. 2d 484 - King v. City of Chicago · 49 Ill. App. 2d 354 - Potter v. Ace Auto Parts & Wreckers, Inc. · 27 Ill. App. 2d 314 - Kinsell v. Hawthorne · 50 Ill. App. 2d 70 - Cooper v. Brogni
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for a new trial is addressed to the discretion of the trial judge and his decision should not be reversed except for an abuse of discretion which must affirmatively appear in the record. (Potter v. Ace Auto Parts and Wreckers, Inc. (1964), 49 Ill. App. 2d 354 , 199 N.E.2d 619 .) A verdict should be vacated and a new trial granted for inadequacy of damages where it is clear that an injustice has been done or where it is apparent that the jury did not consider proper elements of damage. Kinsell v. Hawthorne (1960), 27 Ill. App. 2d 314 , 169 N.E.2d 678 . It is otherwise; however, if the verdict is a compromise between plaintiff’s damages and his own negligence.””
3 later decisions 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.