187 Ill. App. 3d 175 - Ball Corp. v. Bohlin Building Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 209 Ill. App. 3d 631 - 155 Harbor Drive Condominium Ass'n v. Harbor Point Inc. (1991), 357 Ill. App. 3d 1002 - Estate of Willis v. Kiferbaum Construction Corp. (2005)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 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 · 115 Ill. 2d 482 - Duldulao v. Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center · Carson Pirie Scott & Co. v. Parrett · 105 Ill. 2d 474 - Ferentchak v. Village of Frankfort · 85 Ill. 2d 44 - Altevogt v. Brinkoetter
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Liability to a third party must affirmatively appear from the contract's language and from the circumstances surrounding the parties at the time of its execution * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“its implication at least 'must be so strong as to be practically an express declaration.'”
3 later decisions 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.