Steinmetz v. Kern’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2001 · most notably Illinois Natural Gas Co. v. Central Illinois Public Service Co. (1942), 90 Ill. App. 3d 817 - ABC Trans National Transport, Inc. v. Aeronautics Forwarders, Inc. (1980)
1 district · 37 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 Hafner v. Herron · Suchy v. Hajicek · Niland v. Kennedy · Miller v. Miller · Alwood v. Mansfield
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . An agent is entitled to compensation only on a due and faithful performance of all his duties to his principal. (Hafner v. Herron, 165 Ill. 242 .) In the application of this rule it makes no difference whether the result of the agent’s conduct is injurious to the principal or not, as the misconduct of the agent affects the contract from considerations of public policy rather than of injury to the principal. (Sidway v. American Mortgage Co. 222 Ill. 270 .) Under the facts disclosed by the record, the appellant [defendant] was not entitled to compensation.” (Id., 375 Ill. at 621 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bessman v. Bessman
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.