332 Ill. App. 3d 980 - Basham v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably 228 Ill. 2d 200 - Cinkus v. Village of Stickney Municipal Officers Electoral Board (2008), 384 Ill. App. 3d 390 - Coole v. Central Area Recycling (2008)
14 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 154 Ill. 2d 90 - Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 156 Ill. 2d 511 - Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital · 152 Ill. 2d 432 - Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority · 161 Ill. 2d 267 - Ziarko v. Soo Line Railroad · 145 Ill. 2d 404 - Vesey v. Chicago Housing Authority
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.
“when all reasonable minds would agree that the evidence and the reasonable inferences therefrom, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, so overwhelmingly favors the movant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand.”
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.