114 Ill. 2d 504 - Madden v. Cronson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 179 Ill. 2d 121 - Noyola v. Bd. of Educ. of City of Chicago (1997), 186 Ill. 2d 198 - Lewis E. v. Spagnolo (1999)
4 federal appellate · 45 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 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Ward v. Village of Monroeville · Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie · United States v. Will · Southern Pacific Communications Co. v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the performance of official duties by a public officer where no exercise of discretion on his part is involved.”
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.