Linder v. Potier’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 13 Ill. 2d 420 - Pocius v. Fleck (1958), Crosby v. Estate of Strahan (1958)
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 Holsz v. Stephen · Gladville v. McDole · Warren v. Warren · Yager v. Lyon · Flannery v. Woolverton
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.
“it must appear that the promisee cannot be made whole by damages, or by other adequate remedy at law.”
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.