116 Ill. App. 3d 797 - Sheldon v. Colonial Carbon Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 139 Ill. App. 3d 416 - Farmer City State Bank v. Guingrich (1985), 247 Ill. App. 3d 863 - Tim Thompson, Inc. v. Village of Hinsdale (1993)
18 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 104 Ill. App. 3d 767 - Gary-Wheaton Bank v. Burt · 54 Ill. App. 3d 662 - Stony Island Church of Christ v. Stephens · 61 Ill. App. 3d 500 - Parrish v. City of Carbondale · 57 Ill. App. 3d 1017 - Weigel v. O'CONNOR · 98 Ill. App. 3d 1028 - Protestant Hospital Builders Club v. Goedde
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a presumption that a written instrument conforms to the intention of the parties thereto. Therefore, in an action for reformation, plaintiff has the burden of proving by very strong, clear and convincing evidence that there has been a meeting of the minds resulting in an actual agreement between the parties; but, at the time the agreement was reduced to writing and executed, some agreed-upon provision was omitted or one not agreed upon was inserted either through mutual mistake or through mistake by one party and fraud by the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by very strong, clear and convincing evidence that there has been a meeting of the minds resulting in an actual agreement between the parties; but, at the time the agreement was reduced to writing and executed, some agreed-upon provision was omitted or one not agreed upon was inserted either through mutual mistake or through mistake by one party and fraud by the other. 9”
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.