71 Ill. 2d 47 - Gerrity v. Beatty’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 82 Ill. 2d 415 - Lynch v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF COLLINSVILLE COMMUNITY UNIT DIST. (1980), 156 Ill. 2d 76 - Cates v. Cates (1993)
116 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 63 Ill. 2d 165 - Kobylanski v. Chicago Board of Education · 7 Ill. 2d 608 - Nudd v. Matsoukas · 34 Ill. 2d 451 - Mroczynski v. McGrath · 101 Ill. App. 2d 113 - Fustin v. Board of Education of Community Unit District No. 2 · 102 Ill. App. 2d 330 - Woodman v. Litchfield Community School District No. 12
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[P]ublic policy considerations argue rather strongly against any interpretation which would relax a school district's obligation to insure that equipment provided for students in connection with activities of this type is fit for the purpose. To hold school districts to the duty of ordinary care in such matters would not be unduly burdensome, nor does it appear to us to be inconsistent with the intended purposes of sections 24-24 and 34-84a of the School Code." ( 71 Ill.2d at 52-53 , 373 N.E.2d at 1326 .)”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Maintenance of discipline. Teachers and other certified educational employees shall maintain discipline in the schools, including school grounds which are owned or leased by the board and used for school purposes and activities. In all matters relating to the discipline in and conduct of the schools and the school children, they stand in the relation of parents and guardians to the pupils. This relationship shall extend to all activities connected with the school program and may be exercised at any time for the safety and supervision of the pupils in the absence of their parents or guardians. Nothing in this Section affects the power of the board to establish rules with respect to discipline. The board may make and enforce reasonable rules of conduct and sportsmanship for athletic and extracurricular school events. Any person who violates such rules may be denied admission to school events for not more than one year, provided that written 10 days notice of the violation is given such person and a hearing had thereon by the board pursuant to its rules and regulations. The administration of any school may sign complaints as agents of the school against persons committing any offense at school events.” (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 122, par. 24—24.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The statutory provisions in question [sections 24-24 and 34-84a of the school code] reflect a legislative determination that the orderly conduct of the schools and the maintenance of a sound learning atmosphere require that there be a personal relationship between teacher and student in which the teacher has disciplinary and supervisory authority similar to that which exists between parent and child. It is evident that this relationship would be seriously jeopardized if teachers and school districts were amenable to ordinary negligence actions for accidents occurring in the course of the exercise of such authority." 71 Ill.2d 47, 51 .”
3 later decisions 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.