73 Ill. App. 3d 462 - Clay v. McCarthy’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably 94 Ill. App. 3d 915 - Jensen v. Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad (1981), 114 Ill. App. 3d 703 - Hazelwood v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad (1983)
41 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 68 Ill. App. 2d 283 - Buckler v. Sinclair Refining Co. · 63 Ill. App. 2d 315 - Shore v. Turman · 93 Ill. App. 2d 65 - Hession v. Liberty Asphalt Products, Inc. · 52 Ill. App. 3d 90 - Bee Jay's Truck Stop, Inc. v. Department of Revenue · 78 Ill. App. 2d 375 - Miller v. Chicago Transit Authority
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In addition, there must be an impairment of mental and physical faculties with the resultant diminution in the ability to think and act with ordinary care. *** [There must be] some act, action, conduct, appearance, observation, or circumstance shown by the evidence to point squarely to the conclusion, either directly or by reasonable inference, that the conduct of the individual at and before the accident was or may have been affected by the use of alcoholic beverages.””
2 later decisions 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.