158 Ill. App. 3d 733 - Loftus v. Mingo’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 197 Ill. App. 3d 319 - Goodknight v. Piraino (1990), 361 Ill. App. 3d 477 - Kelley v. Carbone (2005)
23 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Parratt v. Taylor · Daniels v. Williams · Paul v. Davis · 88 Ill. 2d 407 - Knox College v. Celotex Corp.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The courts have encountered considerable difficulty in dealing with public officers, firemen and the like, who come upon the land in the exercise of a legal privilege and the performance of a public duty. Such individuals do not fit very well into any of the more or less arbitrary categories which the law has established. They are not trespassers, since they are privileged to enter. The privilege is independent of any permission or license of the possessor, and there is no right to exclude them.’ ” Loftus, 110 Ill.Dec. 368 , 511 N.E.2d at 210 , quoting Ryan v. Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, 315 Ill.App. 65 , 42 N.E.2d 128, 133 (1942).”
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.