Thornton v. Hendrickson’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1973
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Vigus v. O'Bannon · Beidler v. Crane · Weber v. Mick · Illinois Central Railroad v. Cole · Strohm v. Hayes
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An objection to the admission of evidence on the ground of variance is regarded as waived, unless it is made specifically on that ground, and pointed out to the trial court, so that an opportunity may be given to amend the pleading and obviate the objection.” Thornton v. Hendrickson, 213 Ill. App. 121 , and authorities there cited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tivnen v. Gebhart“Sometimes very slight circumstances, apparently trivial in themselves, when joined with other facts, may afford strong proof of fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tcherepnin v. Franz
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.