166 Ill. 2d 337 - Pasquale v. Speed Products Engineering’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 199 Ill. 2d 325 - Belleville Toyota, Inc. v. Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. (2002), 228 Ill. 2d 404 - Williams v. Manchester (2008)
21 federal appellate · 127 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 · 32 Ill. 2d 612 - Suvada v. White Motor Co. · 85 Ill. 2d 1 - Alvis v. Ribar · 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 74 Ill. 2d 203 - Hunt v. Blasius
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reasonable minds might differ as to inferences or conclusions to be drawn from the facts presented.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent““[T]he fault of a defendant is an indispensable element of duty of care in an action brought for the infliction of emotional distress .... [I]n the absence of fault or other culpable conduct a defendant may not be rendered liable for this particular harm. To put it another way, it means that in an action instituted for causing emotional trauma, the liability of a defendant is premised plainly and directly on the presence or absence of defendant’s fault. Since the doctrine of strict liability is not founded upon fault or culpable conduct, a defendant manufacturer should not be held liable under the doctrine for the special harm of inflicting emotional distress upon a plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Every such action shall be brought by and in the names of the personal representatives of such deceased person, and, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse and next of kin of such deceased person * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.