387 Ill. App. 3d 833 - McWilliams v. Dettore’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frye v. United States · 72 Ill. 2d 249 - Walski v. Tiesenga · 209 Ill. 2d 100 - Sullivan v. Edward Hospital · 169 Ill. 2d 525 - Haudrich v. Howmedica, Inc. · 227 Ill. 2d 147 - Townsend v. Sears, Roebuck and Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a medical negligence case * * * can reach a jury, a plaintiff must [establish] the standard of care against which the conduct of the defendant doctor may be measured.”
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.