284 Ill. App. 3d 401 - Brown v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 198 Ill. 2d 541 - Simmons v. Garces (2002), 192 Ill. 2d 49 - Voykin v. Estate of DeBoer (2000)
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 77 Ill. 2d 193 - People v. Spates · 91 Ill. 2d 375 - Powers v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad · 34 Ohio App. 3d 282 - Cooper v. Feeney · 25 Ill. App. 3d 775 - Saputo v. Fatla · 227 Ill. App. 3d 201 - Cunningham v. Millers General Insurance
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the prior injury has long since healed and has shown no recurring symptoms, the defendant should not be permitted to introduce evidence of a prior injury without establishing causation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This rule leaves room for curious results. For instance, a childhood knee injury (falling and bruising a knee) could arguably be admissible in the case of a later alleged knee injury, without any further showing of relevance or causation, even if the prior injury had completely healed and been symptom free for decades. *** Such a rule defies common sense. Obviously, evidence of the old injury is presented to imply to the jury that the old injury, and not the occurrence presently at issue, is responsible for the plaintiffs current complaints. Without the benefit of testimony regarding causation in these instances, jury members are invited to speculate on a nexus between the past accident and the present injury.” Brown, 284 Ill. App. 3d at 404-05 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f a plaintiff suffers a cut in an accident, the jury can readily determine without expert testimony that the accident caused the cut.”
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.