126 Ill. App. 3d 1059 - Long v. Soderquist’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 139 Ill. 2d 501 - Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights (1990), 168 Ill. 2d 312 - Calloway v. Kinkelaar (1995)
71 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 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 41 Ill. 2d 361 - Huey v. the Town of Cicero · 113 Ill. App. 3d 172 - Marvin v. Chicago Transit Authority · 106 Ill. App. 3d 651 - Teitelbaum v. Reliable Welding Co. · 100 Ill. App. 3d 544 - E. M. Melahn Construction Co. v. Village of Carpentersville
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘(1) the municipality must be uniquely aware of the particular danger or risk to which plaintiff is exposed; (2) there must be allegations of specific acts or omissions on the part of the municipality; (3) the specific acts or omissions must be either affirmative or wilful in nature; and (4) the injury must occur while the plaintiff is under the direct and immediate control of employees or agents of the municipality.’ ” (Marshall v. Ellison (1985), 132 III. App. 3d 732, 737, 477 N.E.2d 830, 834 , quoting Curtis v. County of Cook (1982), 109 Ill. App. 3d 400, 407 , 440 N.E.2d 942, 947 , aff’d in part and rev’d in part (1983), 98 Ill. 2d 158 , 456 N.E.2d 116 .)”
3 later decisions 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.