7 Ill. App. 3d 486 - Bergfeld v. Stork’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 1994 · most notably 109 Ill. App. 3d 596 - Martin v. Federal Life Insurance Co. (1982), 75 Ill. App. 3d 57 - Tobolt v. Allstate Insurance Co. (1979)
30 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 1 Ill. App. 3d 890 - Zamouski v. Gerrard · Thomas M. Hannigan and Tru-Han Corporation v. Sears, Roebuck and Co. · 18 Ill. App. 2d 404 - W. P. Iverson & Co. v. Dunham Manufacturing Co. · Arlington Heights National Bank v. Arlington Heights Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · 41 Ill. 2d 468 - Herman v. Prudence Mutual Casualty 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mere averment that an act was done with a certain purpose or intent, without a statement of facts showing such purpose or intent, is a conclusion of law”
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.