399 Ill. App. 3d 238 - Evans v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 228 Ill. 2d 404 - Williams v. Manchester · 37 Ill. 2d 596 - Calvetti v. Seipp · 254 Ill. App. 3d 941 - McCullough v. Gallaher & Speck · Wald v. Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. Co. · 37 Ill. 2d 240 - Sughero v. Jewel Tea 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proof and the initial burden of production in a motion for summary judgment lie with the movant. [Citation.] Where the facts could lead a fair-minded person to draw more than one conclusion or inference, summary judgment must be denied.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] sudden illness or death that renders a driver incapable of controlling his [or her] car, provided that the event is unforeseeable and beyond the power of human intervention to prevent, is an act of God,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“strong reservations that, as a matter of law, an affirmative defense based on an act of God could ever prevail in a summary-judgment context when the plaintiff's injury arose out of an automobile accident.”
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.