92 Ill. App. 3d 157 - McCaskill v. Barr’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Schroeder v. Lufthansa German Airlines (1989), Littlefield v. McGuffey (1992)
8 federal appellate · 22 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 66 Ill. 2d 85 - Public Finance Corp. v. Davis · 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo · 54 Ill. 2d 68 - Turner v. Board of Education
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Illinois, unlike some other jurisdictions, does not require physical injury or disability to accompany, or result from, the psychic trauma.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bn v. Kk · Littlefield v. McGuffey“specific, and detailed beyond what is normally considered permissible in pleading a tort action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] line will be drawn between trivial injuries to the psyche and severe mental disturbances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bn v. Kk
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.