141 Ill. 2d 430 - Deibert v. Bauer Bros. Const. Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 191 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 237 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 222 Ill. 2d 422 - Marshall v. Burger King Corp. (2006), 152 Ill. 2d 432 - Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority (1992)
16 federal appellate · 191 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 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. · 56 Ill. 2d 372 - Cunis v. Brennan · 62 Ill. 2d 456 - Genaust v. Illinois Power Co. · 73 Ill. 2d 316 - Corcoran v. Village of Libertyville · 54 Ill. 2d 539 - Mieher v. Brown
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 237 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) knows or by the exercise of reasonable care would discover the condition, and should realize that it involves an unreasonable risk of harm to such invitees, and (b) should expect that they will not discover or realize the danger, or will fail to protect themselves against it, and (c) fails to exercise reasonable care to protect them against the danger.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A possessor of land is not liable to his invitees for physical harm caused to them by any activity or condition on the land whose danger is known or obvious to them, unless the possessor should anticipate the harm despite such knowledge or obviousness.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'where the possessor has reason to expect that the invitee's attention may be distracted, so that he will not discover what is obvious, or will forget what he has discovered, or fail to protect himself against it.'”
8 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.