171 Ill. App. 3d 691 - Mittelman v. Witous’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2012
12 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 Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Engle v. Isaac · Ollman v. Evans Et Al. · Massa v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We decline to determine whether or not [defendant’s] statement was defamatory by comparing it to statements at issue in other cases, for each case of slander must be considered on its own facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[could not] be interpreted as other than * * * a charge of professional negligence on plaintiff's part.'”
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.