Ickes v. Ickes’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1991
5 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 Armstrong v. Barber · Orr v. Yates · Cahill v. Michael · Walker v. Walker · McFall v. Kirkpatrick
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[C]ases upon the construction of wills do not have the controlling force as precedents that they do in other cases for the reason that the form of a will does not follow a common standard but is a writing found in a great variety of forms and executed under circumstances peculiar to each individual case. [Citations.] Unless a will case cited is in all respects directly in point and agrees in every circumstance with the case before the court, it will have little or no weight. [Citations.]” (Also see Cahill v. Michael (1943), 381 Ill. 395 , 45 N.E.2d 657 .)”
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.