57 Ill. App. 3d 423 - King v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago v. Weyerhaeuser Company (1982), 141 Ill. App. 3d 963 - Estate of Hammond v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. (1986)
4 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 33 Ill. App. 2d 145 - Ready v. Ready · 122 Ill. App. 2d 183 - Manchester Insurance & Indemnity Co. v. Strom · 37 Ill. 2d 470 - City of Chicago v. Myers · In the Matter of Frank E. Cornish, Iii, Bankrupt. Donald C. Schiller v. Frank E. Cornish, III · Brehm v. Piotrowski
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he doctrine of subrogation is broad enough to include every instance in which one person, not a mere volunteer, pays a debt for which another is primarily liable and which in equity and good conscience should have been discharged by the latter.”
2 later decisions 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.