Barry v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 104 Ill. App. 2d 80 - Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. v. Poths · 16 Ill. 2d 234 - Borg-Warner Corp. v. Anchor Coupling Co. · 119 Ill. App. 2d 390 - Brunette v. Vulcan Materials Co. · 64 Ill. 2d 138 - Farmers Automobile Insurance v. Hamilton · Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad v. People ex rel. Allen
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the reduction of an agreement to writing and its formal execution is viewed by the parties as a condition precedent to the vesting of rights and duties, there can be no contract until then, even if the actual terms have been agreed upon.” ( 119 Ill. App. 2d 390, 395 .)”
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.