Lasko v. Meier’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 164 Ill. 2d 54 - Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994), 182 Ill. 2d 12 - Buckner v. Atlantic Plant Maintenance, Inc. (1998)
5 federal appellate · 111 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 Walters v. City of Ottawa · City of Elmhurst v. Kegerreis · Owens-Illinois Glass Co. v. McKibbin · Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Clausen · Bremer v. L. E. W. R. R. 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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, with all intendments in its favor, a complaint wholly and absolutely fails to state any cause of action at all, objection can be made to it for the first time on appeal. But, on the other hand, if the complaint states a cause of action, no matter how defectively or imperfectly alleged, and the same is not challenged below, then such defectively stated cause of action is cured by verdict and cannot be questioned on appeal. ... A cause of action consists of a right belonging to the plaintiff and some wrongful act or omission done by tbe defendant by which that right has been violated and a grievance suffered therefrom by the plaintiff for which the law gives him a right to sue. A cause of action includes every fact necessary for the plaintiff to prove to entitle him to succeed, and every fact which the defendant would have a right to traverse.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any defect in failing to allege or in alleging defectively or imperfectly any substantial facts which are essential to a right of action.” Adcock, 164 Ill. 2d at 60-61 ; Lasko v. Meier, 394 Ill. 71, 73-74 , 67 N.E.2d 162 (1946). There is an exception to the doctrine of aider by verdict, however. In Lasko, 394 Ill. at 74-75 , the court said:”
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.