Old Security Life Insurance v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
740 F.2d 1384 · 1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Gregory v. Chehi (1988), Lamborn v. Dittmer (1989)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1954 · 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Harris v. McRae · Harris v. McRae · Markham v. Allen · Julius Goldman's Egg City v. United States · Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]stoppel arises only when a party's statement or conduct misleads another into the belief that a right will not be enforced and cause him to act to his detriment in reliance on that belief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ratification occurs when the principal, with knowledge of the material facts of an unauthorized transaction, takes a position inconsistent with the nonaffirmation of the transaction.”
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.