35 Ill. 2d 49 - Pitts v. Basile’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably 45 Ill. 2d 418 - Williams v. Brown Manufacturing Co. (1970), 177 Ind. App. 403 - Kroger Co. v. Haun (1978)
6 federal appellate · 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 Morris v. Toy Box · 1 Ill. App. 2d 508 - Semeniuk v. Chentis · 17 Tenn. App. 573 - Highsaw v. Creech · White v. Page · 55 Ill. App. 2d 37 - Pitts v. Basile
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'To us it is simply inconceivable that a 10-year-old boy, much less his mother, would be unacquainted with the use of so common an article as the one here in question.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"'One who supplies directly or through a third person a chattel for the use of another whom the supplier knows or has reason to know to be likely because of his youth, inexperience, or otherwise, to use it in a manner involving unreasonable risk of physical harm to himself and others whom the supplier should expect to share in or be endangered by its use, is subject to liability for physical harm resulting to them.’” Pitts 35 Ill. 2d at 52-53 , 219 N.E.2d at 474 , quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts § 390, at 314 (1965).”
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.