28 Ill. 2d 379 - Beloit Foundry Co. v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 72 Ill. 2d 485 - Sass v. Kramer (1978), 240 Ill. App. 3d 1 - McDermott v. Metropolitan Sanitary District (1992)
2 federal appellate · 63 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 3 Ill. 2d 454 - Kling v. Ghilarducci · D. M. Goodwillie Co. v. Commonwealth Electric Co. · Chicago Title & Trust Co v. Wabash-Randolph Corp. · Willoughby v. Lawrence · 6 Ill. 2d 577 - Allendorf v. Daily
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When Janvrin conveyed the remainder of lot 40 to Freeman, except tract A, said parcels not only retained their dominance as to the northerly half of the 30-foot easement, but also acquired a dominance over that portion of the southerly half of such easement included within the other parcel. And upon the subsequent sale of tract B by Freeman to Goodall, a similar easement by implication arose across tract B for the benefit of the balance of the Freeman property. Accordingly, when the Freeman land was subdivided in 1932, each lot thereof carried with it this dominant characteristic which passed with the land to Freeman’s grantees. Furthermore, the plat of Freeman’s subdivision clearly indicated the existence of the easement adjoining the subdivision on the north, and the conveyance of these lots having been made with reference to such plat, Freeman and his successors in interest are estopped to now deny the existence of such servitude.” Beloit Foundry, 28 Ill. 2d at 389 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Of course, a person cannot claim an easement over his own land, [citations] but he may arrange his property in such a manner that one portion thereof derives a benefit from another, and upon the severance of such common ownership, easements and servitudes arise which correspond with the benefits and burdens existing at time of sale.” Beloit Foundry, 28 Ill. 2d at 389 .”
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.