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← 849 N.E.2d 488 - Cantrell v. Morris

Cantrell v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
2
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2674 · 28 U.S.C. § 2680 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Connick v. Myers

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “All courts shall be open; and every person, for injury done to him in his person, property, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law. Justice shall be administered freely, and without purchase; completely, and without denial; speedily, and without delay.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Pisciotta v. Old National Bancorp · 741 F. Supp. 2d 925 - INDIANAPOLIS CHAPTER OF NAACP v. Ballard
  2. “When a legislative provision protects a class of persons by proscribing or requiring certain conduct but does not provide a civil remedy for the violation, the court may, if it determines that the remedy is appropriate in furtherance of the purpose of the legislation and needed to assure the effectiveness of the provision, accord to an injured member of the class a right of action, using a suitable existing tort action or a new cause of action analogous to an existing tort action.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. McSwane v. Bloomington Hospital & Healthcare System
  3. “This does not constitute recognition of an implied tort arising under the Constitution. Rather, it recognizes that the already-established tort of wrongful discharge can be based on termination for exercise of a constitution ... right.”). And we read Hoagland to state that a simple constitutional claim — independent of any tort — is not subject to the ITCA. Indeed, the plaintiff’s claim in Hoagland was not presented as a tort claim at all, as the court specifically noted that”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Linda D. McIntire, and those similarly situated v. Franklin Township Community School Corporation

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.