54 Ill. 2d 539 - Mieher v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 204 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 235 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. (1990), 117 Ill. 2d 507 - Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center (1987)
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 204 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 Desist v. United States · Cree v. Goldstein · 45 Ill. 2d 418 - Williams v. Brown Manufacturing Co. · Larsen v. General Motors Corp. · Evans v. General Motors 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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is apparent that the concept of duty in negligence cases is very involved, complex and indeed nebulous. The term is so ill-defined and its boundaries so indistinct that one commentator has observed: `There is a duty if the court says there is a duty.' And he concluded that the court's pronouncement often reflects the policy and social requirements of the time and community. Prosser, Palsgraf Revisited, 52 Mich. L. Rev. 1 , 15; see also Prosser, Law of Torts (4th ed. 1971) 325-26."”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Necessary to any recovery based on the theory of common law negligence is the existence of a duty or an obligation requiring one to conform to a certain standard of conduct for the protection of another against an unreasonable risk. Whether under the facts of a case such a relationship exists between two parties as to require that a legal obligation be imposed upon one for the benefit of another is a question of law to be determined by the court. (Prosser, Handbook of the Law of Torts (4th ed. 1971), sec. 37.)"”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The question in our case involves the duty of the manufacturer to design a vehicle with which it is safe to colhde.” (Emphasis ours.)”
2 later decisions 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.