38 Ill. 2d 280 - Keen v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably 132 Ill. 2d 304 - Castaneda v. Illinois Human Rights Commission (1989), 72 Ill. 2d 215 - Robbins v. Professional Construction Co. (1978)
49 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 American Steel Foundries v. Gordon · 77 Ill. App. 2d 430 - Larson v. Harris
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The purpose of a post trial motion is to give the trial court an opportunity to correct any errors in the trial and eliminate the necessity of appeal. * * * (I)t does afford the judge an opportunity for a more deliberate consideration of the propriety of the action which he took initiaHy amid the pressures of a jury trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Any party who fails to seek a new trial in his post-trial motion, either conditionally or unconditionally, as herein provided, waives the right to apply for a new trial, except in cases in which the jury has failed to reach a verdict.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.