165 Ill. App. 3d 983 - Thiele v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 216 Ill. App. 3d 108 - Maxwell v. Hobart Corp. (1991), 294 Ill. App. 3d 720 - In Re Marriage of Bonneau (1998)
23 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 · 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark · 108 Ill. 2d 541 - People v. Correa
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not difficult to consider the many ways in which it would be argued that the mental conditions of claimants are at issue. Soon there would exist more areas of inquiry deemed exceptions to the privilege than there would be areas of inquiry protected by the privilege. The privilege of confidentiality is far too important to be brushed aside when, as here, the mental condition of the plaintiff may be only peripherally involved.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A jury verdict is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence only if wholly unwarranted by the evidence or if clearly a result of passion or prejudice. [Citation.] A jury verdict should not be set aside merely because the jury could have drawn different inferences and conclusions from conflicting testimony.” Thiele, 165 Ill. App. 3d at 996 .”
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.