33 Ill. 2d 44 - Beckert v. Risberg’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2011
21 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 Jones v. Sanitary District · Domm v. Hollenbeck · 50 Ill. App. 2d 100 - Parks v. City of Chicago
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a dog or other animal, without provocation, attacks or injures any person who is peaceably conducting himself in any place where he may lawfully be, the owner of such dog or other animal is liable in damages to such person for the full amount of the injury sustained.” (111. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 8, par. 366.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"At the trial no evidence was introduced that the dog had vicious propensities, nor was the evidence in other respects sufficient to prove a common-law cause of action.” (Emphasis added.) Beckert, 33 Ill. 2d at 46 .”
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.