170 Ill. App. 3d 191 - Pasulka v. Koob’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 131 Ill. 2d 428 - Board of Education v. A, C and S, Inc. (1989), 222 Ill. App. 3d 226 - Lang v. Consumers Insurance Service, Inc. (1991)
3 federal appellate · 37 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · Corallo v. United States · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · 51 Ill. App. 3d 350 - Needy v. Sparks · 21 Ill. App. 3d 925 - St. Joseph Hospital v. Corbetta Construction 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The interpretation of an unambiguous written contract is a question of law for the trial court to determine. Likewise, the determination of whether an ambiguity exists is also a question of law. (Nerone v. Boehler (1976), 34 Ill. App. 3d 888 , 340 N.E.2d 534 .) Simply because the parties cannot agree on the meaning of a contract does not mean it is ambiguous. (Joseph v. Lake Michigan Mortgage Co. (1982), 106 Ill. App. 3d 988 , 436 N.E.2d 663 .) Even if the court determines there is an ambiguity and evidence of prior and contemporaneous transactions and other extrinsic facts are introduced to ascertain the contract’s true meaning, the meaning of the contract may still be determined as a matter of law where the facts are uncontroverted or show the contract to have but one meaning. Nerone v. Boehler (1976), 34 Ill. App. 3d 888 , 340 N.E.2d 534 .” (Pasulka v. Koob (1988), 170 Ill. App. 3d 191, 202 , 524 N.E.2d 1227, 1234 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In evaluating the incremental probative value of proffered evidence, the fact that the opponent has offered to stipulate or is not disputing the proposition for which the evidence is being offered must be considered. However, the fact that the proposition is not being disputed is not determinative; the proponent of the evidence is entitled to have the court also consider the fair and legitimate weight that introduction of the evidence would have upon the trier of fact.” M. Graham, Cleary & Graham’s Handbook of Illinois Evidence §403.1, at 148 (4th ed. 1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Waste occurs when someone who lawfully has possession of real estate destroys it, misuses it, alters it or neglects it so that the interest of persons having a subsequent right to possession is prejudiced in some way or there is a diminution in the value of the land being wasted.” Pasulka v. Koob (1988), 170 Ill. App. 3d 191, 209 , 524 N.E.2d 1227, 1239 , citing 78 Am. Jur. 2d Waste §1 (1975).”
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.