Scotten v. Landers’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2016
2 district · 15 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 Denton v. Utley · 25 Ill. App. 2d 1 - Ruggles v. Selby · Davis v. Flatiron Materials Company · Joyce Darrold Locke v. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, a Corporation · McCarthy v. Eddings
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“general release . . . will constitute a bar to a claim for an unknown injury [if] ‘it . . . appear[s] from the circumstances surrounding the transaction that such was [the claimant’s] clear intention.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the injured party released his claim under a mistaken or false impression that he was fully informed as to the nature of his injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“known and unknown, foreseen and unforeseen”
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.