160 Ill. App. 3d 699 - Mueller v. Soffer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2013
9 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 94 Ill. App. 3d 915 - Jensen v. Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad · 110 Ill. App. 3d 800 - Schoeneweis v. Herrin · New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad v. American Transit Lines, Inc. · 48 Ill. App. 3d 937 - Beck v. Capitol Life Insurance · 129 Ill. App. 3d 422 - Wright v. Autohaus Fortense, Inc.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order properly to plead the existence of and the right to recovery under a bailment theory, the following elements must be alleged: an agreement, express or implied, to create a bailment; delivery of the property in good condition; acceptance of the items bailed by the bailee; and nonreturn or redelivery of the property in a damaged condition.”
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.