68 Ill. 2d 223 - Mora v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 148 Ill. 2d 151 - Currie v. Lao (1992), 56 Ill. App. 3d 997 - Madden v. Kuehn (1978)
58 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 37 Ill. 2d 494 - Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad · 18 Ill. 2d 11 - Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 · Merchants National Bank v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co. · Strakos v. Gehring · 65 Ill. 2d 485 - People Ex Rel. Scott v. Briceland
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] public employee serving in a position involving the determination of policy or the exercise of discretion is not liable for an injury resulting from his act or omission in determining policy when acting in the exercise of such discretion even though abused.” Ill. Rev. Stat. 1987, ch. 85, par. 2 — 201.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he defendant’s duties were not ministerial, they were governmental in character and required the exercise of discretion and judgment. With regard to holes in the highway, the defendant must exercise discretion and judgment as to which holes to fill and which holes not to fill. Of the holes to be filled, which holes are to be filled first? He must perform all of this within the limitations of available manpower, equipment and finances. It is a well established principle of the common law that an immunity exists in favor of public officials when they are exercising their official discretion on matters which are discretionary in nature and not ministerial.” Lusietto, 107 Ill. App. 2d at 244 , 246 N.E.2d at 27 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Duties of contractors assume many shapes and forms. Contractors must: (a) adequately mark highway detours they have constructed (citations omitted); (b) warn of excavations they have created or exposed (Hogan v. Hill (1958), 229 Ark. 758 , 318 S.W.2d 580 ; Martin v. Farr Brothers Co. (1918), 211 Ill. App. 235 ; Huber v. Cornhusker Paving Co. (1974), 191 Neb. 108 , 214 N.W.2d 269 ; Strakos v. Gehring (Tex. 1962), 360 S.W.2d 787 ; Ross Anglin & Son v. Brennan (Tex. Civ. App. 1971), 466 S.W.2d 832 ; Gilpatrick Construction Co. v. Wind River Ready-Mix Concrete Co. (Wyo. 1970), 473 P.2d 586 ); * *”
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.