253 Ill. App. 3d 934 - Cottrill v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 304 Ill. App. 3d 906 - Canel and Hale, Ltd. v. Tobin (1999), 326 Ill. App. 3d 126 - Amcore Bank, N.A. v. Hahnaman-Albrecht, Inc. (2001)
28 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 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao · 56 Ill. App. 3d 997 - Madden v. Kuehn · 45 Ill. 2d 405 - Kazubowski v. Kazubowski · 68 Ill. App. 3d 1048 - Watson v. St. Annes Hospital · 143 Ill. 2d 188 - Blagg v. Illinois F.W.D. Truck & Equipment 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the duty plaintiff alleges defendant breached arose independent of his State employment and is the duty every physician owes to his patient, rather than an obligation incurred by virtue of holding a public office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s in Madden and Watson , the duty plaintiff alleges that defendant breached in this case arose independently of her State employment and is no different than that duty which any physician owes to her patient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“contain the facts necessary to an understanding of the case, stated accurately and fairly without argument or comment”
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.