Stoltze v. Stoltze’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1989 · most notably 25 Ill. 2d 181 - KALPLAN v. Kaplan (1962), 34 Ill. 2d 84 - People Ex Rel. Drury v. Catholic Home Bureau (1966)
23 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 Illinois Merchants Trust Co. v. Harvey · Douglas Lumber Co. v. Chicago Home for Incurables · VanKoten v. VanKoten · Shlensky v. Shlensky · Kronmeyer v. Buck
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Duress has been universally defined as a condition which exists where one is induced by the unlawful act of another to make a contract or perform or forego an act under circumstances which will deprive him of the exercise of his free will. There must be such compulsion affecting the mind as shows that the execution of the contract or other instrument was not the voluntary act of the maker. Such compulsion must be present and operate at the time the instrument was executed. The burden of proving such duress is on the person asserting it.” Stoltze, 393 Ill. 433, 442 , 66 N.E.2d 424, 428 .”
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.