64 Ill. 2d 1 - Blair v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 92 Ill. 2d 344 - Chapski v. Copley Press (1982), 83 Ill. 2d 146 - Catalano v. Pechous (1980)
13 federal appellate · 43 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 Barr v. Matteo · Spalding v. Vilas · 32 Ill. App. 2d 471 - Larson v. Doner · 115 Ill. App. 2d 148 - McLaughlin v. Tilendis · Haskell v. Perkins
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t has been thought important that officials of government should be free to exercise their duties unembarrassed by the fear of damage suits in respect of acts done in the course of those duties . . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be overcome by a showing of improper motivation or knowledge of falsity,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This restriction is justified by the countervailing policy that officials of government should be free to exercise their duties without fear of potential civil liability.” Blair, 64 Ill. 2d at 6 , 349 N.E.2d at 387 , citing Matteo, 360 U.S. 564 , 3 L. Ed. 2d 1434 , 79 S. Ct. 1335 .”
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.