55 Ill. App. 2d 418 - Larson v. Fell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““This case lacks these attributes of wantonness and wilfulness. The evidence when construed in its aspects most favorable to plaintiff, together with all reasonable inferences arising therefrom, fails to prove a consciousness on the part of the defendant that his conduct would naturally and probably result in injury to another; and, it was not the type conduct which exhibited a conscious indifference to consequences and constituted constructive or legal wilfulness. It was more in the nature of momentary lapse from that degree of attentiveness required by due care.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 6 Ill. App. 3d 532 - Makas v. Pagone

2. ““A wilful or wanton injury must have been intentional or the act must have been 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
   e.g. 6 Ill. App. 3d 532 - Makas v. Pagone

3. ““When traffic control signals are not in place or not in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk ° ° ° .” (Emphasis added.) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 95½, par. 11—1002(a).)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 Ill. App. 3d 320 - Albaugh v. Cooley