128 Ill. App. 2d 356 - Dear v. Locke’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 62 Ill. App. 3d 623 - Browder v. Hanley Dawson Cadillac Co. (1978), 83 Ill. App. 3d 894 - Zagar v. Health & Hospitals Governing Commission (1980)
35 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.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Within 6 months from the date that the injury or cause of action, referred to in Sections 8—102 and 8—103, was received or accrued, any person who is about to commence any civil action for damages on account of such injury against a local public entity, or against any of its employees whose act or omission committed while acting in the scope of his employment 999 caused the injury, must personally serve in the Office of the Secretary or Clerk, 999 for the entity against whom or against whose employee the action is contemplated a written statement 9 9 9 giving the name of the person to whom the cause of action has accrued, the name and residence of the person injured, the date and about the hour of the accident, the place or location where the accident occurred, the general nature of the accident, and the name and address of the attending physician, if any.” (Emphasis added.) Ill. Rev. Stat. 1971, ch. 85, par. 8—102.”
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.