72 Ill. App. 3d 966 - Epstein v. Yoder’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 142 Ill. App. 3d 533 - Kostakos v. KSN Joint Venture No. 1 (1986), 139 Ill. App. 3d 416 - Farmer City State Bank v. Guingrich (1985)
12 federal appellate · 38 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 14 Ill. 2d 284 - Allen v. Meyer · 46 Ill. App. 3d 42 - Pierce v. MacNeal Memorial Hospital Ass'n · 77 Ill. App. 2d 260 - Applicolor, Inc. v. Surface Combustion Corp. · 32 Ill. App. 3d 83 - Heifner v. Board of Education of Morris Community High School District No. 101 · 67 Ill. App. 2d 395 - Coney v. Rockford Life Insurance
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Here, defendant in his answer to the complaint admitted the existence of the joint venture agreement but generally denied the remaining allegations of the complaint and asked that it be dismissed. Then, after participating in discovery for two years, defendant for the first time in his response to the motion for summary judgment asserted that the issues raised by the complaint and his counterclaim were subject to his contractual right of arbitration. We believe that this assertion came too late and, accordingly, that the trial court properly refused to dismiss the complaint for the failure of plaintiffs to first submit the dispute to arbitration. Applicolor, Inc. v. Surface Combustion Corp.” 72 Ill. App. 3d 966, 972 , 391 N.E.2d 432, 437 ; see also Annot., 25 A.L.R.3d 1171 , §20(a) (1969).”
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.