207 Ill. App. 3d 531 - Thompson v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 136 Ill. 2d 450 - Hayes v. Mercy Hospital & Medical Center · City of Decatur v. American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees, Local 268 · 202 Ill. App. 3d 625 - Highland v. Bracken · 123 Ill. 2d 95 - Canteen Corp. v. Department of Revenue · 158 Ill. App. 3d 515 - Hartford Fire Insurance v. Architectural Management, Inc.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(b) *** no product liability action based on the doctrine of strict liability in tort shall be commenced except within ** years from the date of first sale, lease or delivery of possession by a seller or 10 years from the date of first sale, lease or delivery of possession to its initial user, consumer, or other non-seller, whichever period expires earlier, of any product unit that is claimed to have injured or damaged the plaintiff ***. * * * (d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) and paragraph (2) of subsection (c) if the injury complained of occurs within any of the periods provided by subsection (b) and paragraph (2) of subsection (c), the plaintiff may bring an action within 2 years after the date on which the claimant knew, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have known, of the existence of the personal injury, death or property damage, but in no event shall such action be brought more than 8 years after the date on which such personal injury, death or property damage occurred. *** * * * (f) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to create a cause of action or to affect the right of any person to seek and obtain indemnity or contribution.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 110, pars. 13 — 213(b), (d), (f).”
4 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.