174 Ill. App. 3d 359 - Foster v. Devilbiss Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 191 Ill. 2d 326 - In Re Estate of Dierkes (2000), 199 Ill. App. 3d 821 - Baltus v. Weaver Division of Kidde & Co. (1990)
33 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 57 Ill. 2d 7 - Winnett v. Winnett · 96 Ill. 2d 520 - Board of Education of Arbor Park School District No. 145 v. Ballweber · 111 Ill. 2d 545 - In Re Support of Pearson · 101 Ill. 2d 535 - In Re Levin · 59 Ill. 2d 79 - Rios v. Niagara MacHine & Tool Works
Most-quoted passages
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“"Devilbiss has confused the use of demonstrative exhibits with experiments carried out by experts to form an opinion. Experiments must be substantially similar to the actual conditions of the case, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 220 [citation], but Rule 220 is inapplicable to the use of a demonstrative exhibit.” Foster, 174 Ill. App. 3d at 365 , 529 N.E.2d at 585 .”
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.