373 Ill. App. 3d 290 - Shank v. Fields’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2025
15 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 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. · 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center · 125 Ill. 2d 203 - Rowe v. State Bank of Lombard · 198 Ill. 2d 541 - Simmons v. Garces · 188 Ill. 2d 252 - First Springfield Bank & Trust v. Galman
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'forces set in operation,' " or the first negligent act, only come to rest in a position of apparent safety "when the risk of harm to the plaintiff created by the defendants' alleged negligence had passed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether a duty of care exists is a question of law.”
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.