147 Ill. App. 3d 710 - Robb v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao (1992), 133 Ill. 2d 295 - Healy v. Vaupel (1990)
14 federal appellate · 80 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 68 Ill. 2d 540 - Bio-Medical Laboratories, Inc. v. Trainor · 104 Ill. 2d 169 - Senn Park Nursing Center v. Miller · 72 Ill. 2d 485 - Sass v. Kramer · 56 Ill. App. 3d 997 - Madden v. Kuehn · Moline Tool Co. v. Department of Revenue
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““there are (1) no allegations that an agent or employee of the State acted beyond the scope of his authority through wrongful acts; (2) the duty alleged to have been breached was not owed to the public generally independent of the fact of State employment; and (3) where the complained-of actions involve matters ordinarily within that employee’s normal and official functions of the State.””
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Smith · Sellers v. Rudert“could operate to control the actions of the state or subject it to liability.”
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.