2 Ill. 2d 74 - Ney v. Yellow Cab Co.’s Empirical Analysis

1954

Citation profile

418

cited by 418 later decisions

states following

March 2026

most recently cited

35 federal appellate · 368 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 418 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. (1964), Rappaport v. Nichols (1959)

35 federal appellate · 368 state decisions — followed in 18 states

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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Bailey v. Central Vermont Railway, Inc. · Neering v. I.C.R.R. Co. · Johnston v. City of East Moline · Amann v. Faidy

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 418 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“"[W]e find no persuasive authority and no impelling reasoning for this court to hold, as a matter of law, that no actionable negligence can exist. Questions of negligence, due care, and proximate cause are ordinarily questions of fact for the jury to decide." 2 Ill.2d 74, 83-84 , 117 N.E.2d 74, 80 .”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 47 Ill. App. 3d 427 - Felty v. General Telephone Co. · 152 Ill. App. 3d 78 - Berry v. Habitat Co.
“'What constitutes proximate cause has been defined in numerous decisions, and there is practically no difference of opinion as to what the rule is. The injury must be the natural and probable result of the negligent act or omission and be of such a character as an ordinarily prudent person ought to have foreseen as likely to occur as a result of the negligence, although it is not essential that the person charged with negligence should have foreseen the precise injury which resulted from his act.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. McKenna v. AlliedBarton Security Services, LLC · 47 Ill. App. 3d 427 - Felty v. General Telephone Co.
““The common law has established itself in the history of jurisprudence because of its flexibility in its recognition of and adaptation to changing times and mores; and, as adopted by our legislature, ‘is a system of elementary rules and of general declarations of principles, which are continually expanding with the progress of society, adapting themselves to the gradual changes of trade, commerce, arts, inventions and the exigencies and usages of the country.’ [Citations.]” Renslow, 67 Ill. 2d at 362 , 367 N.E.2d at 1257 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 67 Ill. 2d 348 - Renslow v. Mennonite Hospital · 43 Cal. 2d 60 - Richards v. Stanley

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.