56 Ill. App. 3d 236 - Mitchell v. Weiger’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 96 Ill. 2d 190 - Porter v. Ford Motor Co. (1983), 190 Ill. App. 3d 571 - Brady v. Prairie Material Sales, Inc. (1989)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · 37 Ill. 2d 622 - The PEOPLE v. Smith · 14 Ill. App. 2d 5 - Hulke v. International Manufacturing Co. · City of Chicago v. Babcock · 18 Ill. App. 2d 404 - W. P. Iverson & Co. v. Dunham Manufacturing Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘We would further add that the weight of the modem authorities is against these cases, and in favor of the more reasonable rule, that where the release of one of several obligors shows upon its face, and in connection with the surrounding circumstances, that it was the intention of the parties not to release the co-obligors, such intention, as in the case of other written contracts, shall be carried out, and to that end the instrument shall be construed as a covenant not to sue.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, nothing herein shall be deemed in any way to be a release by Mitchell of Illinois Central Industries, Abex Corporation, Signal-Stat Corporation or any other direct or indirect subsidiaries of Illinois Central Industries from any right or claim which Mitchell has or may have against them or any of them.” ( 56 Ill. App. 3d 236, 238 , 371 N.E.2d 888, 890 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Mitchell ” ° ” does hereby release and forever discharge Journee, * *, from all claims and liabilities of every kind and nature which now exist or which may in the future come into existence * .” ( 56 Ill. App. 3d 236, 237 , 371 N.E.2d 888, 890 .)”
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.