368 Ill. App. 3d 1007 - Webber v. Wight & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 386 Ill. App. 3d 522 - Johnson v. Johnson (2008), 379 Ill. App. 3d 78 - Greenwich Insurance v. RPS Products, Inc. (2008)
44 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 181 Ill. 2d 460 - Dowd & Dowd, Ltd. v. Gleason · 169 Ill. 2d 504 - Swick v. Liautaud · 217 Ill. 2d 144 - Corral v. Mervis Industries, Inc. · 222 Ill. 2d 147 - York v. Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center · 83 Ill. 2d 344 - Brown v. Decatur Memorial Hospital
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, it is for the trial court to [determine] if a jury instruction is `applicable, supported by evidence in the record, and an accurate statement of the law.' Luye v. Schopper, 348 Ill.App.3d 767, 773 [ 284 Ill.Dec. 34 , 809 N.E.2d 156 ] (2004) * * *. It is true that litigants are entitled to have the jury instructed as to their theory of the case; however, the instructions they propose `must accurately state applicable law' in order for them to be given at trial. [Citation.] Ultimately, there is no abuse of discretion as long as, `taken as a whole, the instructions [given at trial] fairly, fully, and comprehensively apprise [] the jury of the relevant legal principles' of the case presented. [Citation.] A new trial will be granted based on the court's refusal to give a proposed instruction only when that refusal has caused serious prejudice to a litigant's right to a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because of Rule 137's penal nature, courts must construe it strictly, must make sure the proposing party has proven each element of the alleged violation with specificity, and should reserve sanctions for the most egregious cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether to provide a particular jury instruction lies within the sound discretion of the trial court, and we, as the reviewing court, will not disturb that determination absent a clear abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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