151 Ill. App. 3d 1082 - Drake v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2007
16 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 88 Ill. 2d 81 - People Ex Rel. Brown v. Baker · 137 Ill. App. 3d 773 - Hollembaek v. Dominick's Finer Foods, Inc. · 119 Ill. App. 3d 713 - Bass v. Washington-Kinney Co. · 111 Ill. 2d 341 - Casey v. Baseden · 91 Ill. App. 3d 705 - Lindsay v. Appleby
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You must fix the amount of money which will reasonably and fairly compensate the widow and lineal next of kin of the decedent, for the pecuniary loss proved by the evidence to have resulted to them from the death of the decedent. ‘Pecuniary loss’ may include loss of money, goods, services and society. Where the decedent leaves a widow and lineal next of kin the law recognizes a presumption that they have sustained some substantial pecuniary loss by reason of the death. The weight to be given this presumption is for you to decide from the evidence in the case. In determining pecuniary loss you may consider what the evidence shows concerning the following: 1. What money, goods, and services the decedent customarily contributed in the past; 2. What money, goods, and services the decedent was likely to have contributed in the future; 3. Decedent’s personal expenses and other deductions; 4. What instruction, moral training, and superintendence of education he might reasonably have been expected to give his children had he lived; 5. His age; 6. His sex; 7. His health; 8. His habits of industry, sobriety, and thrift; 9. His occupational abilities; 10. His physical and mental characteristics; 11. The relationship between Richard Decker and his children, Holly and Christopher Decker.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where the testimony of a witness is neither contradicted by testimony or circumstances, nor inherently improbable, and the witness has not been impeached, that testimony may not be disregarded even by a jury.””
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.