164 Ill. App. 3d 37 - Bashton v. Ritko’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2023
8 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 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · 134 Ill. App. 3d 48 - Peskin v. Deutsch · 130 Ill. App. 3d 1094 - Katz v. BELMONT NAT'L BANK OF CHICAGO · Lanno v. Naser
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he discovery rule mandates that the statute of limitations starts to run when a person knows or reasonably should know of his injury and also knows or reasonably should know that it was wrongfully caused.”
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.