Sullivan v. Cheshier’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · 79 Ill. 2d 295 - Anderson v. Wagner · 143 Ill. 2d 296 - Corgan v. Muehling · 102 Ill. 2d 505 - Bullard v. Barnes
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Illinois generally does not allow anyone but the patient to sue over negligent malpractice even where that malpractice causes physical injury to others, as occurs when an infectious disease is improperly treated and is passed on to family members.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.