306 Ill. App. 3d 960 - Lang v. Silva’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 227 Ill. 2d 440 - Karas v. Strevell (2008), 371 Ill. App. 3d 797 - Ramirez v. Smart Corp. (2007)
46 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 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. · 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge · 83 Ill. 2d 388 - Kolakowski v. Voris · 165 Ill. 2d 181 - Zedella v. Gibson · Turcotte v. Fell
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even in sports where there are rules governing the permissible degree of physical contact, rule infractions are inevitable and justify a lower standard of care than ordinary negligence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the principal has the right to control the manner and method in which the agent performs his work and the agent has the ability to subject the principal to personal liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An independent contractor * * * undertakes to produce a certain result [but is not] controlled as to the method [in which he obtains] that result.”
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.