Hampton v. Cashmore’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2025
3 federal appellate · 18 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 48 Ill. 2d 580 - Fooden v. Board of Governors · 76 Ill. 2d 427 - Burtell v. First Charter Service Corp. · 155 Ill. 2d 402 - In Re Estate of Hoover · 148 Ill. 2d 429 - Burke v. 12 Rothschild's Liquor Mart, Inc. · 57 Ill. 2d 398 - Janes v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except for willful or wanton conduct, neither a local public entity, nor a public employee acting within the scope of his employment, is liable for an injury caused by the negligent operation of a motor vehicle or firefighting or rescue equipment, when responding to an emergency call, including transportation of a person to a medical facility.” 745 ILCS 10/5 — 106 (West 1994).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We conclude, as a matter of law, that the record presents insufficient evidence to raise a question of fact relating to whether [the ambulance operator] willfully and wantonly failed to slow upon reaching the intersection or maintain a proper lookout for other traffic.” Hampton, 265 Ill. App. 3d at 31 .”
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.