Cook v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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 Watson v. State Farm Fire and Cas. Ins. Co. · Grismore v. Consolidated Products Co. · Firkus v. Rombalski · Beeck v. Aquaslide 'N' Dive Corp. · 125 Ill. App. 3d 1053 - Bofman v. Material Service Corp.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The probative value of previous accidents rests in the likelihood that the same conditions caused the accident under litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is ordinarily within the trial court's discretion to decide whether to exclude evidence on grounds of relevancy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.