167 Ill. App. 3d 881 - Sumner v. Hebenstreit’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 171 Ill. 2d 435 - Bucheleres v. Chicago Park District (1996), 190 Ill. App. 3d 833 - Hagy v. McHenry County Conservation District (1989)
8 federal appellate · 24 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 117 Ill. App. 3d 933 - Fuller v. Justice · 47 Ill. App. 3d 999 - Chisolm v. Stephens · 129 Ill. App. 3d 208 - Keller v. Mols · 44 Ill. 2d 196 - Hocking v. Rehnquist · 36 Ill. App. 3d 83 - Trout v. Bank of Belleville
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is that which shows either a deliberate intention to harm, or an utter indifference to or conscious disregard for the safety of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the tolerance is so pronounced as to be tantamount to permission.”
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.