60 Ill. 2d 585 - Sierens v. Clausen’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 156 Ill. 2d 112 - Kedzie and 103rd Currency Exchange, Inc. v. Hodge (1993), 174 Ill. 2d 77 - Bryson v. News America Publications, Inc. (1996)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 81 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Cook Grains v. Fallis · 20 Ill. App. 3d 702 - Campbell v. Yokel · 40 Ohio App. 2d 203 - Ohio Grain Co. v. Swisshelm · 21 Ill. App. 3d 535 - Boyles v. Freeman · Donaldson v. Holcomb
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Merchant" means a person who deals in goods of the kind or otherwise by his occupation holds himself out as having knowledge or skill peculiar to the practices or goods involved in the transaction or to whom such knowledge or skill may be attributed by his employment of an agent or broker or other intermediary who by his occupation holds himself out as having such knowledge or skill.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"2. Between merchants if within a reasonable time a writing in confirmation of the contract and sufficient against the sender is received and the party receiving it has reason to know its contents, it satisfies the requirements of subsection 1 against such party unless written notice of objection to its contents is given within ten days after it is received." Section 41-02-08, NDCC.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Between merchants” means in any transaction with respect to which both parties are chargeable with the knowledge or skill of merchants.”
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.