70 Ill. App. 3d 106 - Meyer v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 344 Ill. App. 3d 15 - Thornwood, Inc. v. Jenner & Block (2003), 157 Ill. App. 3d 847 - Benton v. Smith (1987)
79 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 Callen v. Pennsylvania Railroad · 60 Ill. 2d 585 - Sierens v. Clausen · 11 Ill. 2d 186 - Bowman v. Illinois Central Railroad · 15 Ill. App. 2d 171 - Clancy v. Pacenti · 43 Ill. App. 3d 35 - Blaylock v. Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[T]his so-called liberal trend must exist in harmony with a policy of encouraging the settlement of personal injury claims and the forbearance of litigation entirely. [Citations.] It is especially important to maintain this latter principle in our progressively litigious society where cases are mounting in our overburdened courts. If a release or covenant is to be lightly disregarded, then the peaceful settlement of claims becomes realistically impossible. Prospective litigants cannot or will not negotiate settlements if the law will not give effect to their executed settlement of claims. [Citations.] It is perhaps for these reasons that public policy favors the peaceful and voluntary resolution of claims; where there appears to have been such a resolution by virtue of a release or covenant, a presumption of its validity is created. [Citations.]'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[E]ach case must be examined so that all the circumstances are taken into consideration to determine the intention of the parties at the time the document was executed. [Citations.] When this is done, the document may be set aside if it was entered into under a mutual mistake of fact which is material to the transaction and affects its substance. In a situation where the facts, when finally known, present an unconscionable result, the document should be set aside as being entered into under a mutual mistake of fact material to the transaction and affecting its substance. This is consistent with the modern trend of cases. [Citation.] It is also in accord with the purpose of the law, which is to do justice under the circumstances of each case.” (Emphasis in original.) ( 70 Ill. App. 3d 106, 113 , 387 N.E.2d 878, 883 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once the defendant establishes the existence of the document, legal and binding on its face, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to prove it invalid by clear and convincing evidence.”
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.