Creighton v. Elgin’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 6 Ill. 2d 494 - People v. Moretti (1955), 368 Ill. App. 3d 447 - Schmitz v. Binette (2006)
30 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 Hartnett v. Boston Store · Totten v. Totten · Brundage v. Knox · Bearss v. Ford · Shults v. Shults
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]t is not necessary that an offer of proof be made where the question shows the purpose and materiality of the evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The question of delivery is one of both law and fact. From the facts and attending circumstances is to be determined the legal question as to whether such acts and declarations constitute a legal delivery. [Citation.] In all cases the question of delivery is open to consideration, to be determined from the facts in each particular case.” Creighton v. Elgin (1944), 387 Ill. 592, 604 .”
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.