158 Ill. App. 3d 449 - Ryan v. E.A.I. Construction Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 129 Ill. 2d 1 - Schaffner v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. (1989), 158 Ill. 2d 116 - National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania v. Glenview Park District (1994)
8 federal appellate · 33 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 · Gilbert v. First National Bank of Jackson · Dewees v. United States · 79 Ill. 2d 564 - People v. Carlson · 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Illinois favors the permissive use of expert testimony in all types of cases where the jury would be aided in its understanding of the facts. [Citation.] *** Moreover, in Illinois, a contractor, builder or other qualified person may give expert opinion testimony on subjects in the field of construction or matters which relate to the construction, installation, maintenance, use, or repair of structures, buildings and the like. Expert testimony in this field covers such things as proper mode of doing construction work, conformity with plans and specifications, adequacy of safeguards and many others. [Citation.]” (Emphasis added.) (Ryan, 158 Ill. App. 3d at 461 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) the award is palpably inadequate or a proved element of damages has been ignored; (2) the amount of the verdict is shown to be erroneous or the result of passion or prejudice; or (3) it clearly appears from uncontradicted evidence that the amount of the verdict bears no reasonable relationship to the loss suffered by the plaintiff.” (Ryan v. E.A.I. Construction Corp. (1987), 158 Ill. App. 3d 449, 463 , 511 N.E.2d 1244, 1253 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The court took judicial notice of the [Chicago Building C]ode after plaintiff tendered a certified copy to the court.”
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.