5 Ill. App. 2d 553 - Epstein v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2025
10 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 McCabe v. Jones · 3 Ill. App. 2d 495 - Greenwald v. Marcus · Oliver v. Sattler · 82 Ohio App. 330 - Walton v. Hudson · William C. Bender & Co. v. Tritz
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In William C. Bender & Co. v. Tritz, the late Judge Tuohy stated the general rule announced in McCabe v. Jones, 141 Wis. 540 , to the effect that financial ability presupposes sufficient funds on hand or ability to command the necessary funds in the time allowed by the offer. The term ‘command’ is important. In Walton v. Hudson, 83 Ohio App. 330 , 79 N.E.2d 921 , 924 cited by plaintiff the court said the cases uniformly hold the purchaser cannot show ability by depending on third persons ‘ “in no way bound to furnish the funds.” ’ We think command here means ‘To have control of.’ ” Epstein, at 558.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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