9 Ill. App. 2d 263 - Eizerman v. Behn’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 189 Ill. 2d 99 - People v. Blue (2000), 35 Ill. 2d 351 - Monier v. Chamberlain (1966)
13 federal appellate · 59 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 Hickman v. Taylor · 2 Ill. 2d 74 - Ney v. Yellow Cab Co. · Haley v. Van Lierop · 1 Ill. 2d 160 - Mitchell v. Van Scoyk · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Clark
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a well-settled rule of law that evidence which is competent for one purpose does not become incompetent because the jury might improperly consider it in some other capacity for which it could not properly be admitted. The opponent of the evidence may, if he so wishes, ask for an instruction confining the evidence to its legitimate sphere; and if he fails to so act, he is deemed to have waived any objection he may have."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We have repeatedly held that damages awarded to a plaintiff in a personal injury case will not be set aside unless so palpably excessive as to indicate passion or prejudice on the part of the jury.” (citing numerous cases.)”
1 later decision 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.