362 Ill. App. 3d 1019 - Stift v. Lizzadro’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 226 Ill. 2d 515 - Heastie v. Roberts (2007), 368 Ill. App. 3d 1007 - Webber v. Wight & Co. (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 151 Ill. 2d 445 - Maple v. Gustafson · 157 Ill. 2d 304 - Gill v. Foster · 172 Ill. 2d 438 - Snover v. McGraw · 326 Ill. App. 3d 541 - Turner v. Williams · 260 Ill. App. 3d 925 - Smith v. City of Evanston
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `loss of a normal life' has almost universally been interpreted as a component of disability which compensates for a change in the plaintiff's lifestyle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where evidence is contradicted, or where it is merely based on the subjective testimony of the plaintiff, a jury is free to disbelieve it.”
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.