Dill v. Widman’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 85 Ill. 2d 146 - Witherell v. Weimer (1981), 158 Ill. 2d 240 - Jackson Jordan, Inc. v. Leydig, Voit & Mayer (1994)
6 federal appellate · 102 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 Kelly v. Jones · Morris v. Central West Casualty Co. · Bondy v. Samuels · Bell v. McDonald · Trustees of Schools v. Village of Cahokia
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that where a party by his statements or conduct leads another to do something he would not have done but for the statements or conduct of the other, the one guilty of the expressions or conduct will not be allowed to deny his utterances or acts to the loss or damage of the other party. The party claiming the estoppel must have relied upon the acts or representations of the other and have had no knowledge or convenient means of knowing the true facts.””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““All evidence tending to prove the material facts, or any of them, in a case is admissible, although it may not alone establish the whole case.””
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.