201 Ill. 2d 1 - Sollami v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 135 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 180 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 224 Ill. 2d 213 - Murray v. Chicago Youth Center (2007), 231 Ill. 2d 516 - Mikolajczyk v. Ford Motor Co. (2008)
17 federal appellate · 135 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. · 62 Ill. 2d 456 - Genaust v. Illinois Power Co. · 79 Ill. 2d 26 - Woodill v. Parke Davis & Co. · 73 Ill. 2d 316 - Corcoran v. Village of Libertyville · 171 Ill. 2d 435 - Bucheleres v. Chicago Park District
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 180 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““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.” Restatement (Second) of Torts §343A(1) (1965).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To recover in a product liability action, a plaintiff must plead and prove that the injury resulted from a condition of the product, that the condition was an unreasonably dangerous one, and that the condition existed at the time the product left the manufacturer's control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A manufacturer has a duty to warn where the product possesses dangerous propensities and there is unequal knowledge with respect to the risk of harm, and the manufacturer, possessed of such knowledge, knows or should know that harm may occur absent a warning.”
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.