Steffes v. Vulcan Materials Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2026
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 75 Ill. 2d 479 - People v. Chicago Title & Trust Co. · Coombs v. People · Crocher v. Abel · 55 Ill. 2d 524 - Chapman v. County of Will · Warren v. Lower Salt Creek Drainage District
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who has the usufruct, control or occupation of land with a claim of ownership, whether his interest be an absolute fee or a less estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to inquire into the circumstances surrounding conveyances accomplished immediately prior to the filing of the petition for annexation,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“attempt[ing] to manipulate the [annexation] statute in ways the legislature never intended.”
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.