40 Ill. App. 3d 766 - McRoberts v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 56 Ill. 2d 372 - Cunis v. Brennan · 60 Ill. 2d 552 - Fancil v. Q.S.E. Foods, Inc. · 56 Ill. 2d 22 - Barnes v. Washington · 57 Ill. 2d 298 - Edgar County Bank & Trust Co. v. Paris Hospital, Inc. · 38 Ill. 2d 209 - Fanning v. LeMay
Most-quoted passages
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““Wilful and wanton misconduct is an aggravated form of negligence. (Prosser, Law of Torts 184 (4th ed. 1971).) It has been defined as an act done with disregard to a risk so obvious that the actor must be taken to have been aware of it and so great as to make it highly probable that harm would follow. (Prosser, Law of Torts 185 (4th ed. 1971).) In Hocking v. Rehnquist, 44 Ill. 2d 196, 201 , 254 N.E.2d 515, 518 , wilful and wanton misconduct was defined as an act ‘committed under circumstances exhibiting a reckless disregard for the safety of others, such as a failure, after knowledge of impending danger, to exercise ordinary care to prevent it or a failure to discover the danger through recklessness, or carelessness when it could have been discovered by the exercise of ordinary care.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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