Stenwall v. Bergstrom’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 66 Ill. 2d 85 - Public Finance Corp. v. Davis (1976), 139 Ill. 2d 501 - Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights (1990)
40 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 Doner v. Phoenix Joint Stock Land Bank of Kansas City · Booker v. Booker · Evans v. Moore · Town of Kaneville v. Meredith · Crosby v. Weil
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No pleading is bad in substance which contains such information as reasonably informs the opposite party of the nature of the claim or defense which he is called upon to meet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Pleadings shall be liberally construed with a view to doing substantial justice between the parties.”
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.