167 Ill. 2d 417 - Pfister v. Shusta’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably Jaworski v. Kiernan (1997), 224 Ill. 2d 213 - Murray v. Chicago Youth Center (2007)
11 federal appellate · 75 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 3 Cal. 4th 296 - Knight v. Jewett · 33 Ill. 2d 326 - Darling v. Charleston Community Memorial Hospital · 31 Ill. 2d 69 - Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp. · 18 Ill. 2d 11 - Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302 · 161 Ill. 2d 267 - Ziarko v. Soo Line Railroad
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a course of action which shows actual or deliberate intent to harm or which, if the course of action is not intentional, shows an utter indifference to or conscious disregard for a person's own safety or the safety or property of others.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"`players regularly commit contact beyond that which is permitted by the rules even as applied. In basketball, such an illegal contact is described as a foul for which a sanction is imposed. Sometimes the player fouled is injured. This is to be expected.'" Pfister, 167 Ill.2d at 427 , 212 Ill.Dec. 668 , 657 N.E.2d 1013 , quoting Pfister, 256 Ill.App.3d at 191-92 , 194 Ill.Dec. 618 , 627 N.E.2d 1260 (Green, J., dissenting).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“duty to refrain from willful and wanton or intentional misconduct.”
2 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.