Dillman v. Nadlehoffer’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 79 Ill. 2d 282 - Soules v. General Motors Corp. (1980), 20 Ill. 2d 89 - Schmidt v. Landfield (1960)
5 federal appellate · 39 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 Ellis v. . Andrews · Fish v. Cleland · Holbrook v. Connor · Nœtling v. Wright · Cooper v. Lovering
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant represented to plaintiffs that said improvements were Ills own invention, and that the patents issued thereon were genuine and valid, and that they did not conflict with or infringe upon the patents or inventions of any one, and i>articularly those controlled by the Washburn & Moon Manufacturing Company and J. L. Ellwood or their licensees.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ Ordinarily, statements of an indefinite or general character made by either of the parties, pending a negotiation for the sale of property, relating to its cost or value, or offers made for it and the like, will not, in the absence of special circumstances, afford any ground ''for avoiding the sale, although false, and made with a fraudulent intent.” Dillman v. Nadelhoffer, 119 Ill. 567 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayberry v. Rogers
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.