32 Ill. 2d 345 - Graul v. Adrian’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 41 Ill. 2d 236 - Flynn v. Vancil (1968), Spence v. Staras (1974)
5 federal appellate · 50 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 20 Ill. 2d 301 - Saunders v. Schultz · Ohnesorge v. Chicago City Railway Co. · 43 Ill. App. 2d 267 - Wright v. Royse · 19 Ill. App. 2d 212 - Fortner v. Norris · 31 Ill. App. 2d 379 - Shepherd v. Marsaglia
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.
“[t]he sole question presented *** [was] whether a parent may recover, in a separate action, medical and funeral expenses incurred by him for a child whose death occurs as the result of the wrongful act of a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“No damages are recoverable under [the Wrongful Death Act] for pain and suffering of the deceased, nor for medical, hospital or funeral expenses, but the damages are limited to loss of support.”
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.