90 Ill. App. 3d 127 - Luthy v. Keehner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2007
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 41 Ill. App. 3d 697 - LaMonte v. City of Belleville · 102 Ill. App. 2d 218 - Sabath v. Morris Handler Co. · Finn v. Williams · Brunotte v. Dewitt · Powers v. Heffernan
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the intent of the parties is essential in determining whether an easement by way of necessity was created over the [defendants'] property at the time of the conveyance, and the court is not precluded from considering evidence of his intent, we find that the defendants have raised a genuine question of material fact sufficient to resist the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Visser v. Craig
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.