246 Ill. App. 3d 468 - Englund v. Englund’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 171 Ill. 2d 435 - Bucheleres v. Chicago Park District (1996), 185 Ill. 2d 418 - Jackson v. TLC Associates, Inc. (1998)
4 federal appellate · 27 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 111 Ill. 2d 229 - Purtill v. Hess · 136 Ill. 2d 132 - Ward v. K Mart Corp. · 73 Ill. 2d 316 - Corcoran v. Village of Libertyville · 102 Ill. 2d 278 - Cope v. Doe · 92 Ill. App. 3d 813 - Kimbrough v. Jewel Companies, Inc.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the homeowners admitted their negligence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The homeowners had a party to celebrate one of their children's birthdays on August 20, 1989, at the homeowners's house . . . . The house had a large deck connected to the back and an above-ground swimming pool in the backyard. The pool was about four feet deep, and there was a deck connected to the pool at the side of the pool that was furthest away from the house. The pool deck ringed the edge of the pool for about a quarter of the pool's circumference. The pool deck had a four-foot fence along its outer edges and was aligned in such a way that its surface area could be seen from the house deck. "The pool took up a good portion of the homeowners' yard. Next to the pool was a garage and behind the garage was a swing set with sand spread underneath it to eliminate mud under the swings. Because the sand area was behind the garage, very little of it could be seen from the house deck. A set of permanent wooden steps leading to the pool deck began just across from the sand area. At the top of the wooden steps was a gate with a latch. The gate, which was four feet high, was not self-closing. There was a dispute as to whether a small child could open the latch from outside the deck. " On the day of the incident, plaintiff, her husband, and their five children, including [three-year-old] Lauren, came to the homeowners' house for the party in the mid to late afternoon. Plaintiff brought three pairs of child flotation aids called `water wings' for her children to use. At that time La”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Certainly a condition may be so blatantly obvious and in such position on the defendant’s premises that he could not reasonably be expected to anticipate that people will fail to protect themselves from any danger posed by the condition. Even in the case of children on the premises, this court has held that the owner or possessor has no duty to remedy conditions presenting obvious risks which children would generally be expected to appreciate and avoid.” Ward, 136 Ill. 2d at 148 , 554 N.E.2d at 230 , citing Cope v. Doe, 102 Ill. 2d 278, 286 , 464 N.E.2d 1023 (1984) (a case involving an ice-covered retention pond):”
1 later decision 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.