44 Ill. App. 3d 559 - Gatton v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably 67 Ill. App. 3d 496 - LE Myers Co. v. Harbor Insurance Co. (1978), 113 Ill. App. 3d 932 - Fairways of Country Lakes Townhouse Ass'n v. Shenandoah Development Corp. (1983)
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · 13 Ill. App. 2d 451 - Staley v. Mears · Snyder v. Partridge · 343 Ill. App. 281 - Handzel v. Bassi
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts of Illinois have long adhered to the policy that agreements which place restrictions on the power of alienation of property will be strictly construed so that such restrictions will not be extended beyond what is expressly stipulated and ‘ “ * * * all doubts should, as a general rule, be resolved in favor of a free use of property and against restrictions.””
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.