64 Ill. 2d 230 - Dunbar v. Reiser’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 1999 · most notably Pritchard v. State (1990), 306 Ill. App. 3d 927 - Joseph v. Chicago Transit Authority (1999)
50 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 51 Ill. 2d 357 - Housewright v. City of LaHarpe · 63 Ill. 2d 288 - Saragusa v. City of Chicago · 47 Ill. 2d 247 - King v. Johnson · Erford v. City of Peoria · 53 Ill. 2d 405 - Helle v. Brush
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 8-102. Within 1 year from the date that the injury or cause of action, referred to in Sections 8-101, 8-102 and 8-103, was received or accrued, any person who is about to commence any civil action for damages on account of such injury against a local public entity, or against any of its employees whose act or omission committed while acting in the scope of his employment as such employee caused the injury, must serve, either by personal service or by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, a written notice on the Secretary or Clerk, as the case may be, for the entity against whom or against whose employee the action is contemplated [consisting of (?) ] a written statement, signed by himself, his agent or attorney, giving in substance the following information: the name of the person to whom the cause of action has accrued, the name and residence of the person injured, the date and about the hour of the accident, the place or location where the accident occurred, the general nature of the accident, the name and address of the attending physician, if any, and the name and address of the treating hospital or hospitals, if any. § 8-103. 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 whose act or omission committed while acting in the scope of his employment as such employee caused the injury, shall be dismissed and the person to whom such cause of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Padilla v. D'Avis““For the reasons stated we hold that the filing of the complaint within the [applicable] period satisfied the notice requirement of section 8 — 102 of the Tort Immunity Act and the judgment of the appellate court is affirmed.” 64 Ill. 2d at 237 , 356 N.E.2d at 92 .”
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.