Wall v. Pfanschmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 8 Ill. 2d 293 - Belfield v. Coop (1956), 45 Ill. 2d 75 - Certain Taxpayers v. Sheahen (1970)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 United States v. Wiltberger · Riggs v. . Palmer · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Armstrong · Zeigler v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · Perry v. Strawbridge
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has repeatedly held, in line with the general rule in other jurisdictions, that the public policy of a State must be sought in its constitution, legislative enactments and judicial decisions. [Citation.] In Collins v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., supra, [ 232 Ill. 37 ] we said (p. 44): `When the sovereign power of the State has by written constitution declared the public policy of the State on a particular subject, the legislative and judicial departments of the government must accept such declaration as final. When the legislature has declared, by law, the public policy of the State the judicial department must remain silent, and if a modification or change in such policy is desired the law-making department must be applied to and not the judiciary, whose function is to declare the law but not to make it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the public policy of a State must be sought in its constitution, legislative enactments and judicial decisions.”
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.