308 Ill. App. 3d 441 - Hinterlong v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 197 Ill. 2d 278 - Travelers Insurance v. Eljer Manufacturing, Inc. (2001), 843 So. 2d 842 - Villazon v. Prudential Health Care Plan, Inc. (2003)
3 federal appellate · 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1003 (§ 4 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1021 (§ 101 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1144 (§ 514 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. · Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Massachusetts · New York State Conference of Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans v. Travelers 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In 1995, the Court retreated from its rigid textual analysis of section [1144](a).”
1 later decision 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.