209 Ill. App. 3d 999 - Treadwell v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2025
15 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 132 Ill. App. 3d 408 - Ford v. City of Chicago · 122 Ill. App. 3d 419 - Turner v. Chicago Transit Authority · 87 Ill. App. 3d 827 - Johnson v. Amerco, Inc. · 85 Ill. App. 3d 241 - Lake County Forest Preserve District v. Vernon Hills Development Corp.
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.
“all of the evidence, when viewed in its aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors movant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“merely because the jury could have drawn different inferences and conclusions from conflicting testimony.”
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.