Bader v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Mangold Ex Rel. Mangold v. Indiana Department of Natural Resources (2001), GKN Co. v. Magness (2001)
5 federal appellate · 100 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 Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall · Maloney v. Conroy · Erie Insurance v. Hickman Ex Rel. Smith · Guy v. SCHULDT · 117 Ill. 2d 230 - Siemieniec v. Lutheran General 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellate courts independently, and without the slightest deference to trial court determinations, evaluate those issues they deem to be questions of law. A pure question of law is one that requires neither reference to extrinsic evidence, the drawing of inferences therefrom, nor the consideration of credibility questions for its resolution.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the injury is a natural and probable consequence, which in the light of the circumstances, should have been foreseen or anticipated.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“continued pregnancy and the physical transformation her body underwent as a result satisf[ied] the direct impact requirement of our modified impact rule.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.