336 Ill. App. 545 - Wallace v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2001
19 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 Ewertsen v. Gerstenberg · Dolan v. Brown · Curtis v. Rubin · McGovern v. Brown · Clark v. McGee
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The doctrine of acquiescence which will make unenforceable an otherwise valid plan of restriction is *** [based] upon the proposition that tolerated violations of the restriction will, over the course of time, defeat the object of the restriction.” (Wallace v. Hoffman (1949), 336 Ill. App. 545, 555 , 84 N.E.2d 654 .)”
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.