Eggert v. Weisz’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1261 · 1988
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Cygnar v. City of Chicago (1989), 206 Ill. App. 3d 881 - General Motors Corp. v. Douglass (1990)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · La Montagne v. American Convenience Products, Inc. · Mucha v. King · 108 Ill. 2d 255 - In Re Thebus · Gunther GRAEFENHAIN and Philip Miller, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PABST BREWING COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order for money to be the proper subject of a conversion action, ... the plaintiff must have a 'right to a specific fund or specific money in coin or bills.' Where the plaintiff's right is merely to 'an indeterminate sum' of money, a conversion action cannot successfully be maintained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the subject of conversion is required to be an identifiable object of property of which the plaintiff was wrongfully deprived. Money may be the subject of conversion, but it must be capable of being described as a specific chattel....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The standard under which we review the district court's decision to enter a directed verdict is ... the same on appeal as it is in the trial court.”
2 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.