Buerkett v. Illinois Power Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “it is not foreseeable that an invitee will be injured when the condition is obvious or known”
• “Under the deliberate-encounter exception, individuals will make deliberate choices to encounter hazards when faced with employment concerns, and those encounters are reasonably foreseeable by possessors of property.”
• duty is required element of negligence claim
• duty is required element of negligence claim
• “Courts narrowly construe the voluntary-undertaking theory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).