77 Ill. App. 2d 413 - Wing v. Lederer’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 84 Ill. App. 3d 1132 - Schoenberger v. Chicago Transit Authority (1980), Rankow v. First Chicago Corp. (1989)
10 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
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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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Apparent authority in an agent is such authority as the principal knowingly permits the agent to assume or which he holds his agent out as possessing — it is such authority as a reasonably prudent man, exercising diligence and discretion, in view of the principal’s conduct, would naturally suppose the agent to possess.’ Wing v. Lederer, 77 Ill. App. 2d 413, 417 , 222 N.E.2d 535, 537-38 . ‘Apparent authority in an agent to do an act for his principal must be based on the words and acts of his principal and cannot be based on anything the agent himself has said or done.’ Lawcock v. United States Trotting Association, 55 Ill. App. 2d 211, 217 , 204 N.E.2d 802, 805 .””
3 later decisions 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.