25 Ill. App. 2d 411 - Booth v. Cebula’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2009
12 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 Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley · Arthur Manigault v. Alfred a Springs · Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman · People Ex Rel. Eitel v. Lindheimer · 4 Ill. 2d 342 - Orlicki v. McCarthy
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every covenant ... in ... any lease of real property, except those business leases in which any municipal corporation, governmental unit or corporations regulated by a State or Federal commission or agency is lessor or lessee, exempting the lessor from liability for damages for injuries to person ... caused by or resulting from the negligence of the lessor ... in the operation or maintenance of the ... premises ... shall be deemed to be void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable.”
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.