361 Ill. App. 3d 738 - Ferro v. Griffiths’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2020
17 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 192 Ill. 2d 49 - Voykin v. Estate of DeBoer · 299 Ill. App. 3d 964 - Wojcik v. City of Chicago · 342 Ill. App. 3d 530 - DiCosola v. Bowman · Davis v. Maute · 308 Ill. App. 3d 735 - City of Rockford v. Elliott
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more or less probable than it would be without the evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the nature of the damage to the vehicles and the injury to the plaintiff are such that a lay person can readily assess their relationship, if any, without expert interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the jury can properly relate the vehicular damage depicted in the photos to the injury without the aid of an expert,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Peach v. McGovern
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.