248 Ill. App. 3d 562 - Patch v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 166 Ill. 2d 337 - Pasquale v. Speed Products Engineering (1995), Thomas v. Cook County Sheriff's Department (2009)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 19 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 104 Ill. 2d 504 - People v. Albanese · 92 Ill. 2d 530 - Elliott v. Willis · Merchants National Bank v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · 108 Ill. 2d 401 - Hollis v. R. Latoria Construction, Inc. · 20 Ill. 2d 301 - Saunders v. Schultz
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a variety of contexts, courts of review in this State have held that damages for loss of society are difficult to estimate exactly and no standard of value applies; rather, their assessment is committed to the sound discretion of the jury as to what is reasonable under the circumstances of any given case guided by its observations, experience, and sense of fairness.”
2 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.