68 Ill. 2d 79 - Murphy v. Messerschmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 98 Ill. 2d 391 - Mort v. Walter (1983), 83 Ill. 2d 10 - Bentley v. Saunemin Township (1980)
8 federal appellate · 51 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 · 33 Ill. 2d 326 - Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital · 2 Ill. 2d 74 - Ney v. Yellow Cab Co. · 5 Ill. 2d 614 - Kahn v. James Burton Co. · 64 Ill. 2d 380 - Davis v. Marathon Oil Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“designed to eliminate existing hazards as well as to prevent the creation of future ones.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“relevant in terms of both time and conduct involved.”
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.