Mentzer v. Van Scyoc’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2019
7 federal appellate ·
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 63 Ill. 2d 128 - First Capitol Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp. · 103 Ill. 2d 266 - In Re Marriage of Logston · Oughton v. Parkhurst · 144 Ill. 2d 32 - In Re Estate of Callahan · 51 Ill. App. 2d 97 - East Moline Works Credit Union v. Linn
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not supersede or infringe upon the protection given by section 21 of the Workers' Compensation Act”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“court[s] cannot generally require workers' compensation benefits to be applied to the debts of a claimant, even when reduced to judgment, unless some specific statutory provision ... so provides.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Hernandez
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.