Ross v. Cortes’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2020
21 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 Dimick v. Schiedt · 71 Ill. 2d 583 - Frank v. Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n of America · 66 Cal. 2d 821 - Jehl v. Southern Pacific Co. · 48 Ill. App. 3d 260 - Kitsch v. Goode · 30 Ill. App. 3d 435 - Biehler v. White Metal Rolling & Stamping Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Tt has been the long-followed rule in Illinois that a paid automobile repair bill is admissible in evidence without other foundation as prima facie evidence of the necessity and reasonableness of such repairs.’ ” Ross, 95 Ill. App. 3d at 773 , quoting Smith v. Champaign-Urbana City Lines, Inc., 116 Ill. App. 2d 289, 291 (1969).”
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.