140 Ill. App. 3d 201 - Hamil v. Vidal’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2023
4 federal appellate · 11 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 46 Ill. 2d 32 - Lipsey v. Michael Reese Hospital · 95 Ill. 2d 223 - Moore v. Jackson Park Hospital · 120 Ill. App. 3d 550 - Severe v. Miller · 97 Ill. App. 3d 585 - Stanger v. Felix · Boag v. Chief of Police
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A careful reading of the applicable statute here reveals that the limitations period is tolled only for that period of imprisonment during which the [tort] occurs, not during subsequent periods of incarceration. This is reasonable because once a prisoner is released ... nothing prevents the plaintiff from commencing his action at that time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the person entitled to bring the action is, at the time the cause of action occurred, under the age of 18 years, or under legal disability, or imprisoned on criminal charges, the period of limitations does not begin to run until the disability is removed.””
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.