68 Ill. App. 3d 781 - Brainerd v. Kates’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 75 Ill. App. 3d 516 - Schmidt v. Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban and Fuller (1979), 98 Ill. App. 3d 794 - Sheetz v. Morgan (1981)
3 federal appellate · 26 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 952
Relies on 72 Ill. 2d 495 - Walker v. Rumer · 112 Ill. App. 2d 234 - Sanders v. Frost · 46 Ill. App. 3d 68 - House v. Maddox · 58 Ill. App. 3d 1003 - Hill v. Lutheran Hospital · 57 Ill. 2d 388 - Collins v. Westlake Community Hospital
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a situation of this type, far from demonstrating negligence as a matter of law, the record shows the need for expert testimony in determining whether or not defendant in the case at bar had exercised a reasonable degree of care and skill with due regard to the distinction between errors of negligence and of mistaken legal judgment.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in determining whether this defendant was or was not negligent it is necessary to judge his conduct by the factual situation which existed during the months * * * when the notice of appeal was actually filed”
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.