39 Ill. App. 2d 228 - Johnson v. Sleaford’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2000
15 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . For immediate use as such the immature crops as such may have had, theoretically, no value at all, but the proper method of establishing the market value of the crops as they were when destroyed, together with the value of the right which the owners had to mature the crops and harvest them at the proper time, . . . That value was necessarily a matter of estimate or conclusion of the mind of the witnesses to be arrived at from all the material facts which would affect it, including the quality of the land on which the crops were growing, its fertility, and productivity, . . . and including the probability or improbability that a particular crop would mature on a particular tract, . . See, also, Grommes v. Town of Aurora (1962), 185 N.E.2d 3 ; Economy Light & Power Co. v. Cutting (1893), 49 Ill. App. 422 ; Chicago and Rock Island R.R. Co. v. Ward (1854), 16 Ill. 522 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““probable amount of grain the crop would produce, and the probable value of the same in the market at the market season, deducting therefrom the necessary cost of cultivating, harvesting, and' taking the same to market; the amount and value are necessarily hypothetical and an opinion thereon can only be formed by considering the average yield at the place and under like circumstances and the average value of the products in the market at the place and time of market [citation].””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]hat no owner or keeper of such animals shall be liable for damages in any civil suit for injury to the person or property of another caused by the running at large thereof, without the knowledge of such owner or keeper, when such owner or keeper can establish that he used reasonable care in restraining such animals from so running at large.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.