7 Ill. 2d 563 - Pasfield v. Donovan’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1991
11 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 Vogel v. Pekoc · Manowsky v. Stephan · City of Evanston v. Wazau · Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway Co. v. Duggan · Morrison v. Farmers Elevator 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an owner or tenant files suit hereunder and the court finds that the defendant has engaged in any of the ' foregoing prohibited activities, then the court shall allow the plaintiff a reasonable sum of money for the services of the plaintiff’s attorney. This allowance shall be a part of the costs of the litigation assessed against the defendant, and may be recovered as such.””
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.