Ryan v. Yarbrough’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp. · 38 Ill. 2d 223 - Hux v. Raben · 201 Ill. 2d 134 - Oliveira v. Amoco Oil Co. · 199 Ill. 2d 483 - Dillon v. Evanston Hospital · 156 Ill. 2d 76 - Cates v. Cates
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term 'de novo' means that the court reviews the matter anew−the same as if the case had not been heard before and as if no decision had been rendered previously.”
2 later decisions 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.