30 Ill. App. 3d 965 - Dickson v. Riebling’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 2 Ill. App. 3d 978 - Hobson's Truck Sales, Inc v. Carroll Trucking, Inc · 3 Ill. App. 3d 487 - Landfield Finance Co. v. Feinerman · 20 Ill. App. 3d 226 - Rauwolf v. Travelers Indemnity 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essence of conversion is not the acquisition of the property by the wrongdoer but a wrongful deprivation of the owner thereof.””
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.