Abril v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Matter of Levine (1993), Bennett v. Baxter Group, Inc. (2010)
28 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 Musa v. C. K. Adrian, M. D. · 85 Ill. 2d 458 - Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago Ex Rel. O'Keeffe v. Ingram Corp. · 85 Ill. App. 3d 859 - Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago Ex Rel. O'Keeffe v. Ingram Corp. · Montana Power Co. v. Montana Department of Public Service Regulation · Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation v. Frazier
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We agree with the comments of the trial judge concerning the lack of merit to this case. A reading of the motions filed by appellants indicate the harassing nature of much, if not all, of them. We note that this appeal was filed January 22, 1987. The mandate of Division One of this court in Abril’s case against Globe [reversing punitive damages but affirming compensatory damages of $300,000] issued on January 9, 1987. At the time this appeal was filed, Abril and his attorney knew that the judgments in favor of the injured pedestrian would be paid by Globe and that he would suffer no damage. We find this appeal frivolous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of Levine“[d]irect, substantial, and immediate, one which would be prejudiced by the judgment or benefited by its reversal. A non-party to an action is prejudiced or aggrieved in the legal sense when a legal right has been invaded or a pecuniary interest is directly, not merely indirectly, affected. The non-party’s interest must appear in the record or be alleged in the points relied on for reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dowling v. Stapley
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.