MacMillan v. Scheffy’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
7 district · 7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 92 Ill. 2d 13 - Pelham v. Griesheimer · 181 Cal. App. 3d 954 - Fox v. Pollack · Simpson v. Calivas · Spherex, Inc. v. Alexander Grant & Co. · Bianco Professional Ass'n v. Home Insurance
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressed so as to give the promisor reason to know that a benefit to a third party is contemplated by the promisee as one of the motivating causes of his making the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.