17 Ill. 2d 92 - Majewski v. Gallina’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably 69 Ill. 2d 320 - Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School (1977), 164 Ill. 2d 54 - Adcock v. Brakegate, Ltd. (1994)
5 federal appellate · 43 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 Kester v. Crilly · The People v. Small · Wollenberger v. Hoover · Connolly v. Gishwiller · Schueler v. Blomstrand
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Tt may be based on concealment; on fraudulent devices; on a wilful, malevolent act directed to perpetrate a wrong to the rights of others; unlawful appropriation of another’s property by design, or conduct that operates fraudulently on the rights of others, and is so intended. In short, it comprises all acts, of omissions and concealments, including breach of legal or equitable duty, trust or confidence, resulting in injury to another.’ [Citations.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is seldom that any one act, taken by itself, will establish a conspiracy, but when taken in connection with other acts it may appear clearly that the series of wrongful acts result from concerted and associated action. Considered separately the acts of a conspiracy are rarely of an unequivocally guilty character, and they can be properly estimated only when connected with all the surrounding circumstances.””
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.