96 Ill. 2d 479 - Fregeau v. Gillespie’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 139 Ill. 2d 455 - Meerbrey v. Marshall Field & Co. (1990), 397 Ill. App. 3d 437 - U.S. Bank v. Lindsey (2009)
4 federal appellate · 83 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 81 Ill. 2d 229 - Collier v. Wagner Castings Co. · 95 Ill. 2d 441 - Robertson v. Travelers Insurance Co. · 31 Ill. 2d 272 - Chmelik v. Vana · 73 Ill. 2d 259 - Ahlers v. Sears, Roebuck Co. · 33 Ill. 2d 40 - Sjostrom v. Sproule
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No common law or statutory right to recover damages from the employer, his insurer, his broker, ... other than the compensation herein provided, is available to any employee who is covered by the provisions of this Act, to anyone wholly or partially dependent upon him, to legal representatives of his estate, or anyone otherwise entitled to recover damages for such injury.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“to obtain compensation under the Act, which was designed to provide speedy recovery without proof of fault for accidental injuries, he is barred under the holding in Collier from bringing an action against his co-employee for civil damages.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“because the design of the Act 'was to serve as a substitute for an employee's common law right of action and not as a supplement to it.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.