287 Ill. App. 3d 871 - McCraw v. Cegielski’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 213 Ill. 2d 351 - City of Chicago v. Beretta U.S.A. Corp. (2004), 198 Ill. 2d 541 - Simmons v. Garces (2002)
3 federal appellate · 25 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 151 Ill. 2d 445 - Maple v. Gustafson · 193 Ill. App. 3d 482 - Turner v. Roesner · 254 Ill. App. 3d 941 - McCullough v. Gallaher & Speck · 65 Ill. 2d 244 - Walling v. Lingelbach
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's acts are a legal cause only if they are 'so closely tied to the plaintiff's injury that he should be held legally responsible for it.'”
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.