23 Ill. App. 2d 25 - Seaburg v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2024
7 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 Feder v. Midland Casualty Co. · 333 Ill. App. 450 - Meyer v. Meyer · Moss v. Johnson · People ex rel. Kastning v. Militzer · Lake Street Elevated Railroad v. Shaw
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1, A cause of action for a nonnegligent tort or pure tort, may be maintained in Illinois against a minor of six years of age.” “4. Where property owner brought action against six year old defendant to recover for damages to building and contents therein set on fire by defendant * * * first count of complaint alleging tortious conduct of defendant was sufficient to state a cause of action * *”
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.