Cusanelli v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2014
10 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 City of Salem v. Webster · Hart v. Strong · Wilhelm v. People · Harrison v. Bingheim · Foy v. Blackstone
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The record does not show that the court made any ruling thereon, hence there is nothing for the consideration of this court relative to the offer of such evidence. Where a ruling on objections to evidence is reserved, and not afterwards made, there is no ruling for consideration on review. Mitchell v. Chicago, B. & Q. Ry. Co., 265 Ill. 300 . To avail of an objection, counsel must insist upon a ruling of the trial court upon the objection, and must either obtain a ruling or a refusal of the court to rule. Mere failure to rule is not sufficient, City of Salem v. Webster, 192 Ill. 369 ; Summerville v. Penn Drilling Co., 119 Ill. App. 152 ; Chicago & E.I.R. Co. v. Heilingstein, 137 Ill. App. 35 . The law upon this question is stated in 3 Corpus Juris, p. 889, sec. 795: `As a general rule, error alleged in the admission or rejection of evidence, cannot be considered by the reviewing court if it does not appear from the record that there was a ruling relating thereto.' Here the record fails to disclose a ruling upon the objection to the offer of the exhibits, and further does not show that defendant insisted upon such ruling, or that the court refused to make same; hence, within the rule of the authorities cited, there is nothing for the consideration of the court upon the proposition." (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.