166 Ill. App. 3d 347 - Heavey v. Ehret’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 216 Ill. App. 3d 843 - People Ex Rel. Hartigan v. Knecht Services, Inc. (1991), Zadrozny v. City Colleges (1991)
5 federal appellate · 27 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 69 Ill. 2d 320 - Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School · 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. · Department of Mental Health & Developmental Disabilities v. Civil Service Commission · 44 Ill. 2d 562 - The PEOPLE v. Marino · 64 Ill. 2d 543 - Lawson v. G. D. Searle & Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ontracts implied in fact arise from a promissory expression that is inferred from circumstantial evidence of an intent to be bound.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ut the rule is otherwise if the quasi-contractual claim involves different subject matter.”
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.