59 Ill. App. 3d 834 - Tipsword v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2018
16 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 109 Ill. App. 2d 268 - First Nat. Bank of Elgin v. Szwankowski · 71 Ill. App. 2d 457 - Haleem v. Onate · 51 Ill. App. 3d 1044 - Brown v. St. John's Hospital of Hospital Sisters of Third Order of St. Francis · Franklin v. Templeton
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts have traditionally been reluctant to interfere with the determination of the jury in awarding damages as long as the award is within the range of the evidence, the instructions proper, and there is no improper exclusion of evidence. (Brown v. St. John's Hospital (1977), 51 Ill. App. 3d 1044 , 367 N.E.2d 155 .) Additionally, if there appears to be evidence suggesting a genuine conflict as to the legitimacy of the expenses incurred, then the verdict of the jury should not be disturbed on review. (Haleem v. Onate (1966), 71 Ill. App. 2d 457 , 219 N.E.2d 94 .) Nevertheless, a court will intercede in the jury’s assessment of damages where the award is palpably inadequate, or it is clear that proof of an element of damages has been ignored, or it is shown to be erroneous or the result of passion or prejudice, or where it clearly appears from the uncontradicted evidence that the amount of the verdict bears no reasonable relationship to the loss suffered by the plaintiff. First National Bank v. Szwankowski (1969), 109 Ill. App. 2d 268 , 248 N.E.2d 517 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Clearly, an impact between automobiles of the force sustained here would justify a prudent person involved in such an accident to seek medical advice. Each plaintiff, as a result of seeking medical advice, incurred expenses for a physical examination, X-rays, and a prescription for medication. . . .We conclude that the plaintiffs are entitled at least to some damages.” 59 Ill.App.3d at 837 , 17 Ill. Dec. at 194-195 , 376 N.E.2d at 87-88 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCommon v. Hennings““While the jury may have been justified in finding that the plaintiffs’ later claims were exaggerated or overtreated, it would be against the manifest weight of the evidence to determine that there was time to plan a scheme to feign injuries when plaintiffs sought initial medical assistance.” Tipsword, 59 Ill. App. 3d at 837 , 376 N.E.2d at 87-88 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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