Skolnik v. Petella’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 95 Ill. 2d 423 - Spiller v. Continental Tube Co. (1983), Jones v. City of Alton (1985)
8 federal appellate · 32 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Phelps v. City of Chicago · Sawyer v. Nelson · Travelers' Insurance v. Mayo
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Piecemeal litigation is not to be permitted and neither the parties nor the courts may be twice vexed with the same cause of action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“concludes only 'those matters in issue or points controverted, upon the determination of which the finding or verdict was rendered.'”
2 later decisions 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.