Walters v. Gadde’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 1990
9 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 Schmidt v. Brown · Cihak v. Klekr · Gerstley v. Globe Wernicke Co. · Monroe v. Shrake · Rush v. Collins
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.
““ ‘The parties are presumed to contract in reference to the condition of the property at the time of the sale, and neither has a right by altering arrangements then openly existing, to change materially the relative value of the respective parts. [Citation.]’ ” Walters, 390 Ill. at 521 , 62 N.E.2d at 441 , quoting Bihss v. Sabolis (1926), 322 Ill. 350 , 153 N.E. 684 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hallock v. Wear
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.