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← 321 Ill. App. 3d 997 - Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Conry

321 Ill. App. 3d 997 - Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Conry’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
September 2016
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 11 U.S.C. § 701

Relies on 304 Ill. App. 3d 586 - Zeitz v. Village of Glenview · In Re Tillery · In Re Hardage · Matter of Wiegert · In Re Hance

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In the instant case, the defendants signed Sears credit card sales receipts incorporating a security agreement by reference and granting Sears a security interest in the items purchased. By analogy with the cases cited above, the signed Sears credit card" receipts satisfied the Illinois statutory requirement of a signed security agreement.”
    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.