57 Ill. App. 3d 792 - Drollinger v. Merrell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Elmhurst v. Kegerreis · 36 Ill. App. 2d 112 - Schoenbrod v. Rosenthal · 2 Ill. App. 3d 650 - Martin v. McCarry · 37 Ill. App. 3d 966 - Di Maso v. Wieboldt Stores, Inc. · 280 Ill. App. 325 - McNulty v. Hotel Sherman Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we realize that it is the function of the court to furnish the jury proper forms of verdict, parties cannot invite error by their conduct or inaction and later assign as error that which is so invited in the event the verdict of the jury is not to their liking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watts v. Laurent
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.