325 Ill. App. 3d 458 - Sinclair v. Berlin’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 204 Ill. 2d 1 - Snelson v. Kamm (2003), 201 Ill. 2d 260 - Schultz v. NORTHEAST ILL. REGIONAL COMMUTER RAILROAD CORP. (2002)
42 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 151 Ill. 2d 445 - Maple v. Gustafson · 84 Ill. 2d 186 - Wilson v. Clark · 38 Ill. 2d 223 - Hux v. Raben · 60 Ill. 2d 418 - Borowski v. Von Solbrig
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff need not show a better result would have been obtained absent the doctor's alleged negligence in order to establish proximate cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a cause which, in natural or probable sequence, produced the injury complained of. It need not be the only cause, nor the last or nearest cause.”
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.