Leoni v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1973
7 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 Donelson v. East St. Louis & Suburban Railway Co. · 208 Ill. App. 340 - Carneghi v. Gerlach · 282 Ill. App. 361 - Mississippi Lime & Material Co. v. Smith · Williams v. Frank Parmelee Transfer Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The dirt shoulder between the north edge of the highway and the fence over which Leoni dropped the heavy pipe, did not afford him much more room, if any, than, enough to straighten up after depositing the pipe and to turn around.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reid v. Owens
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.