47 Ill. 2d 247 - King v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently July 1993 · most notably 48 Ill. 2d 339 - Reynolds v. City of Tuscola (1971), 97 Ill. 2d 515 - Stephens v. McBride (1983)
62 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 32 Ill. 2d 60 - Harvey v. Clyde Park Dist. · Mart Dias v. Eden Twp. Hospital District · 21 Ill. 2d 572 - People Ex Rel. County of Du Page v. Smith · Hansen v. Raleigh · 35 Ill. 2d 362 - Lorton v. Brown County Community Unit School District No. 1
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * # (a) local public entity, or ** * * any of its employees whose act or omission committed while acting in the scope of his employment as such employee caused the injury * * * must personally serve * * V Ch. 85, Sec. 8 — 102, Ill. Rev. Stat.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The purpose of this statute is to furnish timely notice of injury so that there can be an investigation and a prompt settlement of meritorious claims. Local public entities, unlike the private or corporate individuals, must determine their budgets in advance for taxing purposes. Knowing within a reasonable length of time the approximate number of claims against them, facilitates this operation. Notice of possible tort claims within six months is reasonably related to the legislative purpose of imposing tort liability on all local governmental entities on a fair and orderly basis.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the notice under Section 8-102 is not served as provided therein, any such civil action commenced against a local public entity, or against any of its employees ... shall be dismissed....”
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.