271 Ill. App. 3d 662 - Barakat v. Matz’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 299 Ill. App. 3d 513 - Hopewell v. Vitullo (1998), 308 Ill. App. 3d 393 - Vickers v. Abbott Laboratories (1999)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co. · 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge · 154 Ill. 2d 1 - Kolegas v. Heftel Broadcasting Corp. · 92 Ill. 2d 344 - Chapski v. Copley Press · Bratt v. International Business MacHines Corp.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant `had patients from [plaintiff] before'; that defendant `found nothing wrong with his patients'; that plaintiff's `practice was a joke'; that plaintiff was not `any good as a doctor'; and that plaintiff's `opinion wasn't any good'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an underlying factual basis which could be verified, i.e., previous patients from plaintiff which were examined by defendant”
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.