Firebaugh v. McGovern’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 5 Ill. 2d 135 - Hall v. Chicago & North Western Railway Co. (1955), 130 Ill. App. 3d 554 - Schroeder v. Meier-Templeton Associates, Inc. (1984)
27 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 National Pressure Cooker Co. v. Aluminum Goods Manufacturing Co. · Baker v. Administrator of Backus · Hall v. Woods · Chicago Title and Trust Co. v. Mack · Jordan v. Austin Securities Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to secure and preserve the property or thing in controversy for the benefit of all concerned * * * so that it might be subjected to such order or decree as the court might make or render.”
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.