45 Ill. App. 2d 295 - Ferraro v. Augustine’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably 41 Ill. 2d 236 - Flynn v. Vancil (1968), 63 Ill. 2d 463 - Baird v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (1976)
38 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.
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.
““We conclude that there is a presumption of pecuniary loss in favor of the lineal heirs of the deceased in a wrongful death action from the relationship alone, and that the deceased’s parents are such lineal next of kin.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * The law presumes some substantial damages from the relationship alone.””
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.