224 Ill. 2d 247 - Calles v. Scripto-Tokai Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 231 Ill. 2d 516 - Mikolajczyk v. Ford Motor Co. (2008), Winters v. Fru-Con Inc. (2007)
24 federal appellate · 41 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 215 Ill. 2d 78 - Blue v. Environmental Engineering, Inc. · 211 Ill. App. 3d 106 - Scoby v. Vulcan-Hart Corp.
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“nothing more than the adoption of a general rule that a manufacturer will not be liable for open and obvious dangers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the dangers associated with a product that is deemed `simple' are, by their very nature, open and obvious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.