43 Ill. App. 3d 449 - Davis v. Sheehan’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2021
9 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 35 Ill. App. 2d 43 - General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp. v. Brown · Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. · Coulter v. American Employers' Insurance · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Waldo Clark, Sinclair Refining Company, Zurich Insurance Company v. The Travelers Indemnity Company, the Rogers Cartage Company
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 [farmer’s] employees at the bin were engaged in unloading, and their acts in unloading were sufficient to impose on them tort liability, it would be illogical to deny them insurance coverage because a concurrent cause of the damage to the seed corn was more predominating____ The [Illinois] Supreme Court has not passed on the ‘efficient and predominating cause’ rule. We do not apply it to reach the result requested by [the insurer]. When tort law recognizes multiple acts as giving rise to a separate tort liability for the same injury, a rule of contract law construing liability insurance policies with a more restrictive concept of causation, creates many problems.””
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.