Conerty v. Richtsteig’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 118 Ill. App. 3d 754 - Beynon Building Corp. v. National Guardian Life Insurance (1983), 195 Ill. App. 3d 976 - Hickox v. Bell (1990)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Owings v. McKenzie · Union Mut Life Ins Co v. Hanford · Bay v. Williams · Webster v. Fleming · Thorp v. Mindeman
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, there is no provision in the note making any of the terms of the mortgage a part of the note. The better rule seems to be, that the note and mortgage are separate undertakings. The note relates to, and contains the contract of the maker to pay the debt and is wholly independent of the mortgage. The mortgage is not dependent upon the note executed by the mortgagors, for its validity. The note which is the evidence of the indebtedness may be made by third parties, or a mortgage may be valid where there is no note given. The mortgage relates only to the real estate pledged as security for the payment of the debt.” Conerty, 379 Ill. 360, 365 , 41 N.E.2d 476, 479 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The rule to be deduced from the above cases is, that the note and mortgage constitute separate contracts, and that any provision in the mortgage with reference to the time of payment of the debt, not found in the note itself, is no part of the note and does not affect the personal liability of the maker.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pearson v. Smith““No payments having been made by them or by their authority on either the principal or interest, and there having been no extension which was effective as to them, no judgment could lawfully be entered against them under the pleadings and upon the facts in the record.””
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.