95 Ill. 2d 322 - Sharp v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 151 Ill. 2d 142 - Hartlein v. Illinois Power Co. (1992), 204 Ill. App. 3d 302 - Marin v. American Meat Packing Co. (1990)
4 federal appellate · 62 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901
Relies on Reed v. Steamship Yaka · Puyallup Tribe, Inc. v. Department of Game of Washington · 77 Ill. 2d 313 - Smith v. Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago · 13 Ill. App. 3d 699 - Marcus v. Green · 85 Ill. 2d 352 - McCormick v. Caterpillar Tractor 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The legislature enacted the Workmen’s Compensation Act to abrogate the common law rights and liabilities which previously governed an injured employee’s ability to recover against his employer. The Act established a new ‘system of liability without fault, designed to distribute the cost of industrial injuries without regard to common-law doctrines of negligence, contributory negligence, assumption of risk, and the like.’ [Citation.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘An employer, as part of his business, will almost always own or occupy premises, and maintain them as an integral part of conducting his business. If every action and function connected with maintaining the premises could ground a tort suit, the concept of exclusiveness of remedy would be reduced to a shambles.’ ” (Sharp v. Gallagher (1983), 95 Ill. 2d 322, 328 , quoting 2A A. Larson, Workmen’s Compensation §72.82 (1982).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““No common law or statutory right to recover damages from the employer *** for injury or death sustained by any employee while engaged in the line of his duty as such employee, other than the compensation herein provided, is available to any employee who is covered by the provisions of this Act.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 48, par. 138.5(a).”
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.