In Re Lortz’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2020
2 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 11 U.S.C. § 544
Relies on 16 Ill. App. 3d 385 - In Re Application of County Treasurer · Chaseley's Foods Inc Freeland · 39 Ill. App. 3d 379 - Peterson v. Ziegler · 58 Ill. App. 3d 113 - First Galesburg National Bank & Trust Co. v. Martin · 95 Ill. App. 3d 185 - Finance America Commercial Corp. v. Econo Coach, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Section 3-205 requires a creditor to release its security interest within 21 days after payment of the secured loan, it is clear that this section does not make full payment a prerequisite to a valid release. There is no question that a secured party has the power to release the security interest or only the lien before full payment of the secured debt.... For example, a security interest in collateral may be voluntarily terminated where it is deemed by the creditor to be worthless or where the debtor is substituting other collateral.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.