210 Ill. App. 3d 996 - Cato v. Attar’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 234 Ill. App. 3d 690 - Woodard v. Krans (1992), 328 Ill. App. 3d 147 - Avakian v. Chulengarian (2002)
20 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 Mccastle v. Mitchell B. Sheinkop, M.D., Ltd. · 197 Ill. App. 3d 625 - Premo v. Falcone · 180 Ill. App. 3d 632 - Moss v. Gibbons · 169 Ill. App. 3d 845 - Alford v. Phipps · 184 Ill. App. 3d 802 - DeLuna v. St. Elizabeth's Hospital
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no indication of bad faith or an intent to frustrate justice by plaintiff. We can discern no prejudice that would have inured to defendant if the court would have either allowed amendment or dismissed the complaint without prejudice. As previously noted, medical malpractice cases should be determined on the merits when at all possible.” Cato, 210 Ill. App. 3d at 1000 , 569 N.E.2d at 1114 .”
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.