Leitch v. Sanitary District

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “It is a well-recognized rule that equity will not require the performance of a useless act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Beloit Foundry Co. v. Ryan
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1963-09-26· cited 56×
• People Ex Rel. Bernardi v. City of Highland Park
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-02-11· cited 54×
• Tonchen v. All-Steel Equipment, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1973-08-06· cited 46×
• Gault v. Sideman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1963-06-12· cited 36×
• Burke v. Burke
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1957-11-20· cited 28×
• Abbate Bros., Inc. v. City of Chicago
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1957-05-23· cited 25×
• Stowell v. Satorius
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1952-11-20· cited 24×
• Zilvitis v. Szczudlo
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1951-05-24· cited 20×
• Rubenstein v. Fireman's Fund Insurance
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1950-02-21· cited 14×
• First American Discount Corp. v. Jacobs
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-08-21· cited 12×
• Neely v. Coffey
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-09-15· cited 12×
• Steinhauer v. Botsford
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1945-12-18· cited 9×
• Skurat v. Kellerman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-09-27· cited 8×
• Holmes v. Birtman Electric Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1960-01-22· cited 7×
• Central States Cooperatives, Inc. v. Watson Bros. Transportation Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1950-01-18· cited 6×
• Davidson v. Iwanowski
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1950-06-26· cited 4×
• Sullivan v. Bard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1963-10-29· cited 4×
• Central States Cooperatives, Inc. v. Watson Bros. Transportation Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1949-01-24· cited 1×
• Howe v. Floodmaster Manufacturing Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1963-11-22

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Joliet & Chicago Railroad v. Healy
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1880-01-15· cited 15×
• Leitch v. Sanitary District of Chicago
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1938-10-13· cited 12×
• Beattie v. Whipple
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1894-10-29· cited 7×
• Green v. Green
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1864-04-15· cited 6×
• Werden v. Graham
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1883-06-16· cited 6×