Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1975
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 15 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 Lavalle v. Strobel · Conner v. Goodman · Goewey v. Urig
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the general rule that statutes of limitation do not run as between tenants in common, for the reason that the possession of one tenant is, in contemplation of law, the possession of all; but if, as a matter of fact, the possession of one is adverse to the other, a right of action may be barred or title may be acquired under a statute of limitations. If one tenant in common holds exclusive possession, claiming the land as his, and his conduct and possession are of such a character as to give notice to his co-tenant that his possession is adverse, the Statute of Limitations will run. (Lavalle v. Strobel, 89 Ill. 370 ; Littlejohn v. Barnes, 138 id. 478 ; Kotz v. Belz, 178 id. 434 .)” ( 220 Ill. 318, 323 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Guinzy v. Kratz
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.