Factor v. Carson, Pirie Scott & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.2d 141 · 1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1987
3 federal appellate · 6 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 New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. Kinney · 4 Ill. 2d 273 - Geneva Construction Co. v. Martin Transfer & Storage Co. · 32 Ill. 2d 40 - Roth v. Northern Assurance Co. Ltd. · 57 Ill. App. 2d 271 - Tidwell v. Smith · Sachs v. Ohio Nat. Life Ins.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * if * * * the action is dismissed for want of prosecution then, * * * the plaintiff may commence a new action within one year * * * after * * * the action is dismissed for want of prosecution.”
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.