James v. Wicker’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 1989 · most notably 69 Ill. 2d 534 - Nelson v. Araiza (1978), 17 Ill. App. 2d 332 - Meier v. Pocius (1958)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 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 Cruse v. Aden · Meidel v. Anthis · Hyba v. C. A. Horneman, Inc. · Brooks v. Cook · Reget v. Bell
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * [However], when technically considered, contributory negligence is no defense to an action under the Dram Shop Act because the question of negligence of the dram shop keeper or the owner of the premises is in no way involved. But it does not follow that plaintiff can recover in such an action where her own conduct contributed to bring about her injuries * ° James v. Wicker (1941), 309 Ill. App. 397, 402 , 33 N.E.2d 169 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . while obviously plaintiff did not purchase any of the liquor, we think she was a ‘willing party’ not free from ‘complicity’ but on the contrary was a participant in what was done in that regard at the tavern and not an innocent person who alone is entitled to recover under the statute.””
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.