191 Ill. App. 3d 283 - Goad v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 237 Ill. App. 3d 177 - Milex Products, Inc. v. Alra Laboratories, Inc. (1992), 144 Ill. 2d 84 - Drews v. Gobel Freight Lines, Inc. (1991)
40 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 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. · 102 Ill. 2d 505 - Bullard v. Barnes · 46 Ill. 2d 288 - Moore v. Jewel Tea Co. · 24 Ill. 2d 390 - Caley v. Manicke · The People v. Gambony
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the trial of any action in which any party sues or defends as the representative of a deceased person or person under a legal disability, no adverse party or person directly interested in the action shall be allowed to testify on his or her own behalf to any conversation with the deceased or person under legal disability or to any event which took place in the presence of the deceased or person under a legal disability, except in the following instances:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If any person testifies on behalf of the representative to any conversation with the deceased * * * or to any event which took place in the presence of the deceased * * *, any adverse party or interested person, if otherwise competent, may testify concerning the same conversation or event.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ubsection (a) permits the decedent's representative to in effect waive the protection of the Dead Man's Act by presenting evidence concerning events which occurred in the presence of the decedent.”
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.