89 Ill. App. 3d 1144 - Elliott v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Sanchez v. Schindler (1983), 92 Ill. 2d 530 - Elliott v. Willis (1982)
4 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
Relies on Michigan Central Railroad v. Vreeland · 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 41 Ill. 2d 236 - Flynn v. Vancil · Howlett v. Doglio · 63 Ill. 2d 463 - Baird v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every such action shall be brought by and in the names of the personal representatives of such deceased person, and, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, the amount recovered in every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse and next of kin of such deceased person and in every such action the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation with reference to the pecuniary injuries resulting from such death, to the surviving spouse and next of kin of such deceased person.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 70, par. 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“purpose ... is to compensate a family, as plaintiffs for the injury ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.