Hanneman v. Downer’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2017
2 district · 14 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 43 Ill. 2d 54 - Rozny v. Marnul · Oak Grove Investors v. Bell & Gossett Co. · Randono v. Turk · Cook Consultants, Inc. v. Larson · Wells, Inc. v. Shoemake
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The district court is better suited to rule on the qualifications of persons presented as expert witnesses and we will not substitute our evaluation of a witness’s credentials for that of the district court absent a showing of clear error.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The general rule concerning a contract made to convey . . . property is that once a deed has been executed and delivered, the contract becomes merged into the deed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[wthether merger is applicable depends upon the intention of the parties.”
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.