93 Ill. App. 3d 855 - Lay v. Knapp’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably 119 Ill. App. 3d 195 - National Tea Co. v. Commerce & Industry Insurance (1983), 260 Ill. App. 3d 925 - Smith v. City of Evanston (1994)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 76 Ill. 2d 451 - Balestri v. Terminal Freight Cooperative Ass'n · 73 Ill. App. 3d 585 - Illinois State Trust Co. v. Walker Manufacturing Co. · 69 Ill. 2d 308 - Department of Public Works & Buildings v. an Ass'n of Franciscan Fathers · 33 Ill. App. 3d 343 - Pozzie v. Mike Smith, Inc. · 74 Ill. App. 3d 319 - Montefusco v. Cecon Construction Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If you decide for the plaintiff on the question of liability, you may not deny or limit the plaintiff’s right to damages resulting from this occurrence because any injury resulted from *** [an aggravation of a pre-existing condition] [or] [a pre-existing condition which rendered the plaintiff more susceptible to injury].” (Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions, Civil, No. 30.21 (3d ed. 1990).)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whenever Illinois Pattern Jury Instructions (IPI) contains an instruction applicable in a civil case, given due consideration to the facts and the prevailing law, and the court determines that the jury should be instructed on the subject, the IPI instruction shall be used, unless the court determines that it does not accurately state the law. Whenever IPI does not contain an instruction on a subject on which the court determines that the jury should be instructed, the instruction given in that subject should be simple, brief, impartial, and free from argument.””
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.