Starr v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao · 133 Ill. 2d 295 - Healy v. Vaupel · 169 Ill. 2d 110 - Mt. Zion State Bank & Trust v. Consolidated Communications, Inc. · 144 Ill. 2d 535 - Gouge v. Central Illinois Public Service Co. · 131 Ill. App. 3d 456 - Bartholomew v. Crockett
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There can be no recovery in tort for negligence unless defendant breached a duty owed.”
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.