Hennessy v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
521 F.2d 1282 · 1975
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1997
5 federal appellate · 2 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 11 Ill. App. 3d 502 - Modern Tackle Co. v. Bradley Industries, Inc. · Camp v. Hollis · Schaller v. Litton Industries, Inc. · Peterson v. Empire Clothing Co. · 50 Ill. App. 2d 196 - Chiagouris v. Continental Trailways
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b)y virtue of letters exchanged on June 22, 24, 26 and July 22 Schmidt and Hennessey (sic) entered into an agreement whereby Hennessy would receive a specific commission . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennessy v. Schmidt“test) for determining whether Hennessy's activities were the proximate cause of the sale of Schmidt's shares, and that on remand Hennessy was entitled to have”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennessy v. Schmidt“In this case there is no doubt that the parties entered into a legally binding contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hennessy v. Schmidt
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.