59 Ill. 2d 79 - Rios v. Niagara MacHine & Tool Works’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 97 Ill. 2d 104 - Coney v. J. L. G. Industries, Inc. (1983), 138 Ill. 2d 510 - Lamkin v. Towner (1990)
6 federal appellate · 96 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 57 Ill. 2d 7 - Winnett v. Winnett
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since there is no evidence which causally connects the plaintiffs injury with the unreasonably dangerous condition of the machine alleged in the complaint he may therefore not recover * * * under the principles of strict tort liability.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.