65 Ill. 2d 244 - Walling v. Lingelbach’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably 384 Ill. App. 3d 390 - Coole v. Central Area Recycling (2008), 193 Ill. App. 3d 482 - Turner v. Roesner (1990)
4 federal appellate · 35 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 33 Ill. App. 3d 949 - Walling v. Lingelbach
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he collision would not have occurred but for one vehicle having crossed the center line. * * * Although Walling argued that it could be inferred that Strahorn was negligent by exercising improper control and lookout and by speeding, none of these alleged acts were the proximate cause of appellant’s injury. We feel that the jury abandoned the domain of allowable inferences and entered the area of speculation in determining that Strahorn’s negligence was one of the proximate causes of Walling’s injury.” ( 65 Ill. 2d 244, 248 , 357 N.E.2d 530, 532-33 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the evidence was insufficient to present a jury question”
1 later decision 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.