Donaldson v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2002
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Fort Smith v. Brewer · 128 Ill. App. 3d 481 - Kalb v. Village of Oak Lawn
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“City of Pine Bluff has the authority to operate and manage its fire department, including its fire fighter's [sic] hours of duty, holiday compensation, annual vacation, and sick leave.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koppin v. Strode“to mean an eight-hour day rather than a twenty-four hour shift”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Koppin v. Strode
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.