36 Ill. 2d 516 - Lance v. Senior’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 221 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. (1990), 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center (1987)
9 federal appellate · 197 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 5 Ill. 2d 614 - Kahn v. James Burton Co. · Wagner v. Kepler · 66 Ill. App. 2d 41 - Lance Ex Rel. Lance v. Senior
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 221 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After the event, hindsight makes every occurrence foreseeable, but whether the law imposes a duty does not depend upon foreseeability alone. The likelihood of injury, the magnitude of the burden of guarding against it and the consequences of placing that burden upon the defendant, must also be taken into account.””
16 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.