175 Ill. 2d 98 - Richardson v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 94 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 216 Ill. 2d 100 - Avery v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (2005), 179 Ill. 2d 367 - Best v. Taylor MacHine Works (1997)
18 federal appellate · 94 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 152 Ill. 2d 432 - Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority · 16 Ill. 2d 442 - Lau v. West Towns Bus Co. · 123 Ill. 2d 245 - Frazer v. A. F. Munsterman, Inc. · Merchants National Bank v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · 137 Ill. App. 3d 352 - Shaheed v. Chicago Transit Authority
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A verdict will not be set aside by a court unless it is so excessive that it indicates that the jury was moved by passion or prejudice or unless it exceeds the necessarily flexible limits of fair and reasonable compensation or is so large that it shocks the judicial conscience.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jury enjoys a certain degree of latitude in awarding compensation for medical costs that, as shown by the evidence, are likely to arise in the future but are not specifically itemized in the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he determination of damages is a question reserved to the trier of fact, and a reviewing court will not lightly substitute its opinion for the judgment rendered in the trial court.”
2 later decisions 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.