317 Ill. App. 3d 119 - In Re Nitz’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 358 Ill. App. 3d 912 - R & B Kapital Development, LLC v. North Shore Community Bank & Trust Co. (2005), Bank of America, N.A. v. Moglia (2003)
7 federal appellate · 37 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 26 U.S.C. § 130
Relies on 122 Ill. 2d 462 - Greer v. Illinois Housing Development Authority · People v. Daily Journal of Kankakee · 188 Ill. 2d 546 - County of Knox Ex Rel. Masterson v. Highlands, L.L.C. · 145 Ill. 2d 475 - American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Council 31 v. County of Cook · 308 Ill. App. 3d 546 - Henderson v. Roadway Express
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen construing a contract, [the Court's] duty is to effectuate the intent of the parties to the contract.” In re Nitz, 317 Ill.App.3d 119, 124 , 250 Ill.Dec. 632 , 739 N.E.2d 93 (2d Dist.2000); North Shore Gas Co. v. Salomon Inc., 152 F.3d 642, 652 (7th Cir.1998) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“legislature was concerned that such persons were accepting offers of ready, but deeply discounted, cash from companies in exchange for their settlement annuity payments and then ending up penniless and without resources in the future”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a structured settlement agreement does not permit the payments to be assigned, the [trial] court's authority to act on a petition seeking approval of the assignment of payments under such an agreement is not invoked * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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