Hammons v. Eisert’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2020
23 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 99 Ill. App. 3d 493 - Nemeth v. Banhalmi · Fischer, Spuhl, Herzwurm & Associates, Inc. v. Forrest T. Jones & Co. · Prueliage v. De Seaton Corporation · Metropolitan Paving Co. v. Brown-Crummer Investment Co. · King v. Jackson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who by fraud, duress or other tor-tious means intentionally prevents another from receiving from a third person an inheritance or gift that he would otherwise have received is subject to liability to the other for loss of the inheritance or gift.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.