86 Ill. App. 3d 223 - Steward v. Yoder’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 287 Ill. App. 3d 857 - Halloran v. Dickerson (1997), Bank of Am., N.A. v. SFR Invs. Pool 1, LLC (2018)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Groome v. Freyn Engineering Co. · McKey v. McCoid · Plummer v. Rigdon · 178 Ill. App. 487 - Taylor v. Scott, Foresman & Co. · White v. Kibby
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Creditors shall be allowed to receive at the rate of five (5) per centum per annum for all moneys after they become due on any bond, bill, promissory note, or other instrument of writing; on money lent or advanced for the use of another; on money due on the settlement of account from the day of liquidating accounts between the parties and ascertaining the balance[;] on money received to the use of another and retained without the owner’s knowledge; and on money withheld by an unreasonable and vexatious delay of payment.”
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.