235 Ill. 2d 544 - De Bouse v. Bayer AG’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 16 district · 52 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 174 Ill. 2d 482 - Connick v. Suzuki Motor Co., Ltd. · 216 Ill. 2d 100 - Avery v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center · 201 Ill. 2d 134 - Oliveira v. Amoco Oil Co. · 64 Ill. 2d 543 - Lawson v. G. D. Searle & Co.
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 148 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] plaintiff must actually be deceived by a statement or omission. If there has been no communication with the plaintiff, there have been no statements and no omissions. In such a situation, a plaintiff cannot prove proximate cause.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“deceptive act or practice by the defendant,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“must prove that 'each and every consumer who seeks redress actually saw and was deceived by the statements in question.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.