175 Ill. App. 3d 607 - Wald v. Chicago Shippers Ass'n’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Beraha v. Baxter Health Care Corp. (1992), 316 Ill. App. 3d 340 - Owens v. McDermott, Will & Emery (2000)
39 federal appellate · 64 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 Harris v. McRae · 57 Ill. 2d 376 - Carruthers v. B. C. Christopher & Co. · 118 Ill. 2d 306 - Midland Hotel Corp. v. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. · 88 Ill. 2d 444 - Murphy v. Urso · 81 Ill. 2d 317 - Finley v. Finley
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is an ambiguity arising from the terms of a contract, the meaning may be derived from extrinsic facts surrounding formation.”); William Blair & Co., 294 Ill.Dec. 348 , 830 N.E.2d at 773 (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`susceptible to more than one meaning [citation] or is obscure in meaning through indefiniteness of expression.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“estoppel arises through a party's voluntary conduct whereby he is precluded from asserting his rights against another who in good faith relied on such conduct and was therefore led to change his position to his detriment”
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.