Blanton v. Denniston’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1995
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · Best v. District of Columbia · Lusk v. Throop · Pietsch v. Pietsch
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We need not consider whether there may be circumstances where a trial court might properly direct a verdict on the basis of an opening statement, for here a jury’s determination was necessary on the question of contributory negligence. We do not judge as we put it in Pedrick that '*** all of the evidence, when viewed in its aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors movant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand.’ ” (Blanton, 54 Ill. 2d at 5-6 , 294 N.E.2d at 285 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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