Lyons v. Schanbacher’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1989 · most notably 127 Ill. 2d 333 - O'HARA v. Ahlgren (1989), 64 Ill. App. 3d 522 - Broverman v. City of Taylorville (1978)
5 federal appellate · 26 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 Coppell v. Hall · Durkee v. People ex rel. Askren · Crichfield v. Bermudez Asphalt Paving Co. · Galpin v. City of Chicago · Luttrell v. Boggs
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defense is not allowed for the sake of the party seeking to escape his contract, but for the sake of the law. The principle is indispensable to the purity of its administration. It will not enforce what it has forbidden and denounced. . . . Whenever the illegality appears, whether the evidence comes from one side or the other, the disclosure is fatal to the case. No consent of the defendant can neutralize its effect. . . . Wherever the contamination reaches, it destroys. The principle to be extracted from all the cases is that the law will not lend its support to a claim founded upon its violation.”
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.