87 Ill. App. 3d 415 - Murphy v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2010
9 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 72 Ill. App. 3d 37 - Mother Earth, Ltd. v. Strawberry Camel, Ltd. · 66 Ill. App. 2d 134 - Broberg v. Mann · 67 Ill. App. 2d 315 - Citizens Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Fischer · Pustelniak v. Vilimas · 52 Ill. App. 3d 34 - Forrester v. State Bank of East Moline
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘As a general rule a corporate officer or director is not liable for the fraud of other officers or agents merely because of his official character, but he is individually liable for fraudulent acts of his own or in which he participates. [Citation.] The mere fact that a person is an officer or director does not per se render him liable for the fraud of the corporation or of other officers or directors. He is liable only if he with knowledge, or recklessly without it, participates or assists in tile fraud. [Citations.]’ ””
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.