Bartley v. Sweetser’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Smith v. Hansen (1996), Lloyd v. Pier West Property Owners Ass'n (2015)
51 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 78 Ill. 2d 204 - Pippin v. Chicago Housing Authority · Kline v. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue Apartment Corp. · Keck v. American Employment Agency, Inc. · Kilbury v. McConnell · 65th Center, Inc. v. Copeland
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he notion that the act of a third person in committing an intentional tort or crime is a superseding cause of harm to another . . the often times difficult problem of determining foreseeability of criminal acts; the vagueness of the standard which the landlord must meet; the economic consequences of the imposition of the duty; and the conflict with public policy allocating the duty of protecting citizens from criminal acts to the government rather than the private sector.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.