275 Ill. App. 3d 899 - Bivin v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 814 So. 2d 347 - Malicki v. Doe (2002), 287 Ill. App. 3d 921 - Amato v. Greenquist (1997)
27 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 Jones v. Wolf · 251 Ill. App. 3d 34 - Faulkner v. Gilmore · 251 Ill. App. 3d 585 - Paskarnis v. Darien-Woodridge Fire Protection District · 246 Ill. App. 3d 405 - Hines v. Turley
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the church defendant does not claim that the alleged sexual misconduct of its minister was part of its religious beliefs or practices or was in any way sanctioned or condoned by the church.” Bivin, 275 Ill. App. 3d at 902 . Thus, the court held that it could not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]nquiring into whether the church was negligent in its failure to protect plaintiffs from the sexual misconduct of its minister may not call into question the church's religious beliefs or practices or subject them to analysis or scrutiny”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not rooted in the church's religious beliefs and was outside the boundaries of the church's ecclesiastical beliefs and practices.”
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.