157 Ill. App. 3d 1036 - Dotson v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Harlow v. Chin (1989), 162 Ill. 2d 1 - Simmons v. University of Chicago Hospitals & Clinics (1994)
41 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 Trimble v. Gordon · Parham v. Hughes · Glona v. American Guarantee & Liability Insurance · 103 Ill. 2d 192 - People v. Jordan · 20 Ill. 2d 406 - Dini v. Naiditch
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person, and shall be distributed to such widow and next of kin in the proportion provided by law in relation to the distribution of personal property left by persons dying intestate.” ( 1853 Ill. Laws 97 (“An Act requiring compensation for causing death by wrongful act, neglect or default”).)”
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.