282 Ill. App. 555 - Farley v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1963
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Bodemer · Bernier v. Illinois Central Railroad · Walldren Express & Van Co. v. Krug · Jeneary v. Chicago & Interurban Traction Co. · Streeter v. Humrichouse
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * great deal of language has been used in many cases in the attempt to define with mathematical certainty the difference between ordinary negligence and wilful and wanton negligence. More recent cases have held that this is virtually impossible; that whether an act is wilful and wanton depends upon the particular circumstances of each case. * * * However, the decided cases seem to agree that one of the factors distinguishing a wilful and wanton act is, such absence of care for the person of another as exhibits a conscious indifference to consequences, [cases cited.]’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caviness v. Hamblen
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.