194 Ill. App. 3d 147 - Wasleff v. Dever’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 145 Ill. 2d 423 - State Security Insurance v. Burgos (1991), 295 Ill. App. 3d 844 - Stathis v. Geldermann, Inc. (1998)
16 federal appellate · 49 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 66 Ill. 2d 317 - People v. Monroe · 108 Ill. 2d 255 - In Re Thebus · 117 Ill. App. 3d 933 - Fuller v. Justice · 34 Ill. 2d 125 - Marut v. Costello · 73 Ill. 2d 160 - National Bank v. Norfolk & Western Railway 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Implied authority is actual authority that is implied by facts and circumstances and it may be proved by circumstantial evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Evidence of the habit of a person or of the routine practice of an organization, whether corroborated or not and regardless of the presence of eyewitnesses, is relevant to prove that the conduct of the person or organization on a particular occasion was in conformity with the habit or routine practice.” (Emphasis added.) Fed. R. Evid. 406.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is well settled that a contention that is supported by some argument but does not cite any authority does not satisfy the requirements of Supreme Court Rule 341(h)(7), and bare contentions that fail to cite any authority do not merit consideration on -25- 1-13-3838 appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniel v. Ripoli
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.