23 Ill. App. 3d 694 - Leon v. Max E. Miller & Son, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Davis v. Gn Mortgage Corporation (2005), 58 Ill. App. 3d 64 - Hintz v. Lazarus (1978)
6 federal appellate · 47 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 48 Ill. 2d 580 - Fooden v. Board of Governors · Street v. Chicago Wharfing & Storage Co. · 11 Ill. App. 3d 316 - Wegener v. Anna · Morel v. Masalski · 13 Ill. App. 3d 976 - Hendricks v. Deterts
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘One is under a duty to learn, or know, the contents of a written contract before he signs it, and is under a duty to determine the obligations which he undertakes by the execution of a written agreement. [Citation.] And the law is that a party who signs an instrument relying upon representations as to its contents when he has had an opportunity to ascertain the truth by reading the instrument and has not availed himself of the opportunity, cannot be heard to say that he was deceived by misrepresentations. ’ ” Belleville National Bank, 119 Ill. App. 3d at 59 , 456 N.E.2d at 284 , quoting Leon v. Max E. Miller & Son, Inc., 23 Ill. App. 3d 694, 699-700 , 320 N.E.2d 256, 260 (1974).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where properly alleged facts in affidavits in support of motion for summary judgment are not contradicted by counter-affidavits, facts so averted must be taken as true, notwithstanding existence of contrary averments in pleadings of adverse party which purport to raise issues of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stone v. State
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.