22 Ill. App. 2d 326 - Behrens v. Scharringhausen’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 1984
5 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 Canada v. City of Shawnee · Edwards v. Haeger · Zilvitis v. Szczudlo · Brown v. Moore · 16 Ill. 2d 72 - County of Cook v. Glasstex 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of the effect of the motive prompting the interference with the source of supply of water by collecting percolating water, which has been the subject of conflicting decisions in the courts of different States, does not arise in this investigation, * * V ( 180 Ill. 99,108 , 54 N.E. 176, 178 .)”
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.