144 Ill. App. 3d 364 - Fultz v. Peart’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 158 Ill. App. 3d 902 - McDonald's Corp. v. Butler Co. (1987), 159 Ill. App. 3d 214 - Phelps v. O'MALLEY (1987)
37 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark · 60 Ill. 2d 418 - Borowski v. Von Solbrig · 64 Ill. 2d 543 - Lawson v. G. D. Searle & 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Adequate trial preparation requires timely disclosure of expert witnesses. This is needed prior to trial to investigate the credentials of proposed expert witnesses and to discuss the substance of the expert’s testimony with one’s own expert in order to properly prepare for cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“decision of whether to send exhibits to the jury room rests within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion.”
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.