343 Ill. App. 3d 78 - Sameer v. Butt’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 389 Ill. App. 3d 595 - Doe v. Brouillette (2009), 369 Ill. App. 3d 821 - Brown, Udell and Pomerantz, Ltd. v. Ryan (2006)
35 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 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. · 152 Ill. 2d 432 - Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority · Goldberg v. Housing Auth. of City of Newark · 125 Ill. 2d 203 - Rowe v. State Bank of Lombard · 195 Ill. 2d 210 - Hills v. Bridgeview Little League Ass'n
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A trial court's judgment following a bench trial will be upheld if there is any evidence supporting it.' " Southwest Bank, 401 Ill. App. 3d at 890 (quoting Nokomis Quarry Co. v. Dietl, 333 Ill. App. 3d 480, 484 (2002)). ¶ 48 "In order to recover in an action for negligence, a plaintiff must establish the existence of a duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff, a breach of that duty, and an injury to the plaintiff proximately caused by the breach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the person enters by express or implied invitation; (2) the entry is connected with the owner's business or with an activity conducted by the owner of the land; and (3) the owner receives a benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garest v. Booth“`It is axiomatic that liability cannot be premised merely upon surmise or conjecture as to the cause of the injury.'”
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.