158 Ill. 2d 375 - Sohaey v. Van Cura’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 166 Ill. 2d 204 - Bright v. Dicke (1995), 226 Ill. 2d 334 - Vision Point of Sale, Inc. v. Haas (2007)
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 139 Ill. 2d 399 - Barth v. Reagan · 240 Ill. App. 3d 266 - Sohaey v. Van Cura
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"On appeal to this court, [appellants] argue that neither the language of Rule 220 nor the case law supports the appellate court opinion. They argue that once a trial court has determined that there has been a violation of Supreme Court Rule 220, the trial court has no discretion in imposing sanctions. Contrary to defendants’ arguments, Rule 220 does not establish such an inflexible and draconian framework. Neither should it be read to require such strict and unthinking adherence thereto that a wholly disproportionate and manifestly unjust punishment must result. Rather, the imposition of sanctions for a violation of discovery rules has always been, and still remains, a matter largely within the sound discretion of the trial court.” Sohaey, 158 Ill. 2d at 380-81 . "Rule 220 was adopted with the hopes of eliminating situations where either an expert’s late or surprise testimony is permitted to the opponent’s prejudice, the opinions are refused to the detriment of the offering party, the trials are continued, or the allowance or denial of the testimony produces reversible error and the cause must be retried. (134 Ill. 2d R. 220, Committee Comments, at 179.) 'Rule 220 attempts to eliminate these evils by establishing a uniform, but not inflexible, framework for the timely revelation of the identity of expert witnesses and the subject matter of their testimony.’ (Emphasis added.) (134 Ill. 2d R. 220, Committee Comments, at 180.) Reading the rule in the context in which it was wri”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"[F]or Rule 220 to serve the purpose for which this court adopted it, trial courts must have the discretion to impose sanctions other than outright disqualification for technical violations.” Sohaey, 158 Ill. 2d at 383 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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