39 Ill. App. 2d 413 - Melvin v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably 57 Ill. App. 3d 498 - Burke v. Illinois Power Co. (1978), 131 Ill. App. 3d 1 - Fearon v. Mobil Joliet Refining Corp. (1984)
34 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At most, the activities of defendant Thompson can be considered as an effort to require compliance with the contract and to ensure that the quality of work done was as agreed; he inspected the painting as it progressed and threatened to terminate the work if the job was not being done satisfactorily. In so doing, he could not be considered by reasonable men to have been `in charge' of the work * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`was not satisfied with the workmanship or quality of work as the same progressed, he would stop the painting immediately and no payment would be made' * * *.”
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.