100 Ill. App. 3d 116 - Dutton v. Roo-Mac, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 139 Ill. 2d 455 - Meerbrey v. Marshall Field & Co. (1990), Schroeder v. Lufthansa German Airlines (1989)
27 federal appellate · 39 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
Relies on 37 Ill. 2d 352 - Schulenburg v. Signatrol, Inc. · Shelton v. Barry · Lindquist v. Friedman's, Inc. · 43 Ill. App. 3d 878 - Karow v. Student Inns, Inc. · 52 Ill. App. 3d 110 - Mangus v. Cock Robin Ice Cream Co., 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An arrest by an officer caused or procured by a private person is the same as an arrest by the private person.... Where the arresting officer relies solely on the information which the defendant's employee gave him in making the arrest, the private party defendant may be held liable for false imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spencer v. Lee“if a printed or written notice forbidding such entry has been conspicuously posted or exhibited at the main entrance to such land or the forbidden part thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had reasonable grounds to believe that the plaintiff received the notice, rather than that the plaintiff believed such notice had been given.”
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.