32 Ill. App. 2d 367 - McCottrell v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably 47 Ill. App. 3d 842 - Peluso v. Singer General Precision, Inc. (1977), 108 Ill. App. 3d 356 - Broussard v. Huffman Manufacturing Co. (1982)
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
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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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where, in a jury trial, the trial court commits an error of law pertaining to the admission of evidence which requires a reversal of the judgment, the Appellate Court, upon reversal, must remand for a new trial, unless it appears from the record that the error cannot be obviated upon another trial. Dixon v. Smith-Wallace Shoe Co.,., 283 Ill. 234, 239 , 119 N.E. 265 ; Abdill v. Abdill, 292 Ill. 231, 232 , 126 N.E. 543 ; Frey v. City of Chicago, 330 Ill. 640, 642 , 162 N.E. 139 .” (McCottrell v. Benson (1961), 32 Ill. App. 2d 367, 370 , 178 N.E.2d 144,145 .)”
1 later decision 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.