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5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 19 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Leone v. City of Chicago.

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1 Leone v. City of Chicago Anchor
illappct · 1992
green “need not be the only, last or nearest cause; it is sufficient if it occurs with some other cause acting at the same time, which in combination with it, causes injury.” 5
2 Cetera v. DiFilippo
illappct · 2010
green “a new trial is necessary when the cumulative effect of trial errors so deprives a party of a fair trial that the verdict might have been affected.” 5
3 Lange v. Fisher Real Estate Development Corp.
illappct · 2005
green “a landowner owes no duty of care to a trespassing adult except to refrain from willfully and wantonly injuring him.” 3
4 Sameer v. Butt
illappct · 2003
green “(1) the person enters by express or implied invitation; (2) the entry is connected with the owner's business or with an activity conducted by the owner of the land; and (3) the owner receives a benefit.” 3
5 Washington v. City of Chicago
ill · 1999
green “judgment notwithstanding the verdict is properly granted where all the evidence, when viewed in its aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors the movant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand.” 3

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