16 Ill. 2d 209 - Mortell v. Beckman’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably 37 Ill. 2d 352 - Schulenburg v. Signatrol, Inc. (1967), 114 Ill. 2d 278 - Charles Hester Enterprises, Inc. v. Illinois Founders Insurance (1986)
23 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 Doner v. Phoenix Joint Stock Land Bank of Kansas City · 12 Ill. 2d 487 - Carroll v. Caldwell · Wynekoop v. Wynekoop · Perry v. McHenry · Kolze v. Fordtran
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.
“When testimony is contradictory, this court will not substitute its judgment as to the credibility of witnesses for that of the trial court which saw and heard them, and will not disturb the findings unless they are manifestly against the weight of the evidence.”
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.