Olson v. Rossetter’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably 30 Ill. App. 3d 631 - Arrington v. Walter E. Heller International Corp. (1975), United States Trust Co. v. Jones (1953)
7 federal appellate · 28 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 Storey v. Storey · 330 Ill. App. 304 - Olson v. Rossetter · Parker-Washington Co. v. City of Chicago · Geithman v. Eichler · Wolf v. Schwill
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The object of judicial construction of a written instrument is to ascertain the true intent of the parties and to carry it out, if it does not conflict with any rule of law or good morals or the declared public policy of the State. [Citation.] It is not the function of a court to modify a contract or create terms new or different from those to which the parties have agreed.” Olson v. Rossetter (1948), 399 Ill. 232, 238 , 77 N.E.2d 652, 655 .”
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.