Fredrich v. Wolf’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 20 Ill. 2d 512 - City of Evanston v. Piotrowicz (1960), 124 Ill. App. 3d 56 - Handley v. Unarco Industries, Inc. (1984)
36 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 Merchants' National Bank v. Nichols & Shepard Co. · Claflin v. Dunne · Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Gage · Proctor v. Tows · Mullanphy Savings Bank v. Schott
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.
““It is weU settled that where the existence of an agency is an issue in a case, where the alleged principal is a party, the mere statements of the agent made out of the presence of the principal and not subsequently approved by him are not admissible to establish the existence of such relationship.””
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.