38 Ill. 2d 528 - McElroy v. Force’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably 102 Ill. 2d 505 - Bullard v. Barnes (1984), 95 Ill. 2d 452 - Franciscan Sisters Health Care Corp. v. Dean (1983)
3 federal appellate · 103 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 8 Ill. 2d 293 - Belfield v. Coop · Lindroth v. Walgreen Co. · Morrison v. Flowers · City of Chicago v. Vaccarro · Johnson v. Pendergast
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Citations.] Stated differently, the presence of a presumption in a case only has the effect of shifting to the party against whom it operates the burden of going forward and introducing evidence to meet the presumption. If evidence is introduced which is contrary to the presumption, the presumption will cease to operate. [Citations.]'”
4 later decisions 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.