45 Ill. App. 3d 705 - Ross v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Lazzara v. Howard A. Esser, Inc. (1986), 62 Ill. App. 3d 623 - Browder v. Hanley Dawson Cadillac Co. (1978)
8 federal appellate · 20 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 129 Ill. App. 2d 204 - Galiher v. Spates · 8 Ill. App. 3d 1062 - Talbot v. Country Life Insurance · 31 Ill. App. 3d 166 - Ahlvers v. Terminal RR Ass'n · 3 Ill. App. 3d 779 - Gillespie v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co. · 36 Ill. App. 3d 561 - Lynn v. Village of West City
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ 0]ne who procures insurance and acts as middleman between the insured and the insurer, and solicits insurance business from the public under no employment from any special company, but, having secured an order, places the insurance with the company selected by the insured, or, in the absence of any selection by him, with the company selected by such broker.”
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.