139 Ill. App. 3d 241 - Hammel v. Ruby’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 234 Ill. 2d 446 - Kouzoukas v. Retirement Board of the Policemen's Annuity & Benefit Fund (2009), 296 Ill. App. 3d 701 - New Hampshire Insurance v. Hanover Insurance (1998)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 97 Ill. App. 3d 215 - Susmano v. ASSOC. INTERNISTS OF CHICAGO · 76 Ill. App. 3d 725 - Felbinger & Co. v. Traiforos · 77 Ill. App. 3d 207 - Bolger v. Danley Lumber Co. · 64 Ill. App. 3d 625 - Salem National Bank v. Chapman · 117 Ill. App. 3d 832 - Emerich v. Leviton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen contract terms are clear and unambiguous, they must be given their ordinary and natural meaning, and no parol evidence may be considered to vary the meaning of the terms.”
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.