28 Ill. App. 2d 210 - Williams v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sanitary District of Chicago v. Chapin · Jones v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Holmes v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · 296 Ill. App. 323 - Menard v. Bowman Dairy Co. · Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York v. Heitman Trust 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether plaintiff or defendant, the privileges and the rights of one should be the privileges and rights of the other in any enlightened system of jurisprudence. There is no injustice in requiring of a plaintiff, the same attention to his trial settings, as is now required of a defendant. What principle of fair play gives to the defendant his day in court but once, yet grants to the plaintiff, at his own whim or caprice, a second day? When a defendant stays away on his trial day at his peril, may a plaintiff stay away at his pleasure?” Williams, 28 Ill. App. 2d 210, 216 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.