Opp v. Pryor’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 33 Ill. 2d 326 - Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital (1965), 102 Ill. 2d 402 - Sears v. Rutishauser (1984)
3 federal appellate · 69 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 McCarthy v. Spring Valley Coal Co. · Fellows-Kimbrough v. Chicago City Railway Co. · Flynn v. Chicago City Railway Co. · Mulcahey v. Strauss · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad v. Rouse
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... her only reliance to prove her ordinary care was the testimony of Ethel Shambaugh (the driver) and Belle Wood (a passenger) as to what they could see.”
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.