183 Ill. 2d 356 - Silva v. Electrical Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2018
4 federal appellate · 11 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 146 Ill. 2d 155 - Kotecki v. Cyclops Welding Corp. · Solich v. George & Anna Portes Cancer Prevention Center of Chicago, Inc. · 55 Ill. 2d 507 - Carver v. Grossman · 168 Ill. 2d 298 - People v. Sheehan · 175 Ill. 2d 218 - Ramsey v. Morrison
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.
“[A]n employer who is reimbursed for its workers' compensation payments out of the proceeds of the employee's action against a third party is required to pay the employee's attorney '25% of the gross amount of such reimbursement.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the services of an attorney at law of the employee or dependents have resulted in or substantially contributed to the procurement . . . of the proceeds out of which the employer is reimbursed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]n employer's negligence has nothing to do with its statutory right to recover workers' compensation payments under section 5(b) * * *.”
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.