Bevolo v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
447 F.3d 979 · 2006
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2024
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · 31 Ill. App. 3d 212 - Nabozny v. Barnhill · 167 Ill. 2d 417 - Pfister v. Shusta · Ezell v. Potter · 84 Ill. App. 3d 723 - Oswald v. Township High School District No. 214
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Illinois courts have established the “contact sports exception” to negligence. Under this exception, voluntary participants in contact sports may be held liable for injuries to co-participants caused by wilful and wanton or intentional misconduct, but they are not liable for injuries caused by ordinary negligence. Nabozny v. Barnhill, 31 Ill.App.3d 212 , 334 N.E.2d 258, 260-61 (Ill.App.Ct.1975); Oswald v. Twp. High Sch. Dist. No. 214, 84 Ill.App.3d 723 , 40 Ill.Dec. 456 , 406 N.E.2d 157, 159-60 (Ill.App.Ct.1980). “[A] player is liable for injury in a tort action if his conduct is such that it is either deliberate, wilful or with a reckless disregard for the safety of the other player so as to cause injury to that player....” Nabozny, 334 N.E.2d at 261 . The parties agree the exception has been expanded to include unorganized, informal, and spontaneous sports activities. See Pfister v. Shusta, 167 Ill.2d 417 , 212 Ill.Dec. 668 , 657 N.E.2d 1013, 1014-15, 1018 (Ill.App.Ct. 1995) (applying exception to spontaneous game of kiek-the-ean in college dormitory); Landrum v. Gonzalez, 257 Ill.App.3d 942 , 196 Ill.Dec. 165 , 629 N.E.2d 710, 715 (Ill.App.Ct.1994) (applying exception to informal company softball game). ... The situation arose during a martial arts event. Bevolo had been coming to this same location for some time to engage in martial arts training, where physical contact with other participants was the norm. Carter was a master and instructor in the martial arts, a role th”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Illinois courts have established, the 'contact sports exception' to negligence. Under thls exception, voluntary participants in contact sports may be he‘ld liable for injuries to, co-participants caused by wilful and wanton or intentional misconduct, but they are not liable for injuries caused by ordinary negligence.”
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.