385 Ill. App. 3d 620 - Busch v. Mison’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 227 Ill. 2d 147 - Townsend v. Sears, Roebuck and Co. · 221 Ill. 2d 414 - Thompson v. Gordon · 285 Ill. App. 3d 528 - Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Filos · 59 Ill. App. 3d 573 - Shannon v. Stookey · 179 Ill. 2d 271 - Cruz v. Northwestern Chrysler Plymouth Sales, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause the consolidation was done only for convenience and economy, `it did not merge the causes into a single suit, or change the rights of the parties, or make those who were parties in one suit parties in another.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adoption of Sg v. Sg“[w]here a consolidation concerns several actions involving an inquiry into the same event in its general aspects and is limited to a joint trial, with separate docket entries, verdicts[,] and judgments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adoption of Sg v. Sg“since `both cases arise from the same set of facts and involve the same witnesses,' both lawsuits should `be consolidated into one.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Adoption of Sg v. Sg
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.