81 Ill. App. 2d 344 - DeFreezer v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably 260 Ill. App. 3d 925 - Smith v. City of Evanston (1994), 178 Ind. App. 31 - State v. Tabler (1978)
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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The issues of [d]efendants’ negligence and [plaintiff’s due care are sharply contested issues. Both the evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom are conflicting and would have been sufficient to support a verdict for either party. Under such circumstances we conclude that the verdict might have been a compromise of liability against damages and accordingly [pjlaintiff is entitled only to a new trial generally.” DeFreezer, 81 Ill. App. 2d at 348 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was not a compromise of liability against damages.”
1 later decision 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.