255 Ill. App. 3d 352 - Rush v. Hamdy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 299 Ill. App. 3d 818 - People v. Owen (1998), 368 Ill. App. 3d 447 - Schmitz v. Binette (2006)
45 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 106 Ill. 2d 237 - People v. Collins · Reidelberger v. Highland Body Shop, Inc. · 214 Ill. App. 3d 554 - Skelton v. Chicago Transit Authority · 133 Ill. App. 3d 927 - Zelinski v. Security Lumber Co. · Kavanaugh v. Parret
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Tjhere is a difference in the persuasive value of an expert witness who testifies a certain procedure is within the standard of care and is the procedure which the expert himself would have used under the same circumstances and an expert who testifies a certain procedure is within the standard of care, but that he would not have utilized that procedure under the same circumstances.” Rush, 255 Ill. App. 3d at 362 , 627 N.E.2d at 1126 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Dr. Hamdy has his professional reputation on the line here. If he has seemed uptight or excited at times, please consider that he has a lot at stake here. His professional reputation is very important to him.” 255 Ill. App. 3d at 358 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The reference must be reasonably understood to refer to the financial status of the parties and must also be so harmful and prejudicial that it resulted in an improper verdict.”
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.