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288 Ill. App. 3d 585 - Apa v. Rotman’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
3
states following
June 2021
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably David Sherrod v. Darlene Lingle, R.n. (2000), 301 Ill. App. 3d 939 - Cammon v. West Suburban Hospital Medical Center (1998)

3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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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 147 Ill. 2d 57 - DeLuna v. St. Elizabeth's Hospital · Mccastle v. Mitchell B. Sheinkop, M.D., Ltd. · 180 Ill. App. 3d 632 - Moss v. Gibbons · 165 Ill. App. 3d 367 - Hagood v. O'CONNER · 276 Ill. App. 3d 1038 - Steinberg v. Dunseth

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he technical requirements of the statute should not be mechanically applied to deprive a plaintiff of his substantive rights.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Washoe Med. Ctr. v. Dist. Ct. · David Sherrod v. Darlene Lingle, R.n.
  2. “where a minor technical error is involved, permitting a plaintiff to amend [the expert affidavit] more closely furthers the purpose of [the statute] than dismissing with prejudice”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Estella McClellan, Administrator of the Estate of Betty Jo McClellan v. Jeffrey E. Haddock, M.D. and Thomas Chittenden Health Center, PLC
  3. “in a medical malpractice case, a plaintiff should be afforded every reasonable opportunity to establish his case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Washoe Med. Ctr. v. Dist. Ct.

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.