Elliott v. Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• \The negligence of a defendant will not constitute a proximate cause of a plaintiff's injuries if some intervening act supercedes the defendant's negligence\
• “The negligence of a defendant will not constitute a proximate cause of a plaintiffs injuries if some intervening act supercedes the defendant’s negligence”
• \The negligence of a defendant will not constitute a proximate cause of a plaintiff's injuries if some intervening act supercedes the defendant's negligence\
• “[I]n order for there to be a causal connection between the employer’s negligence and the plaintiffs injuries, the employment itself must create the situation where the employee’s violent propensities harm the third person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Heastie v. Roberts
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2007-11-01· cited 177×
• Keefe-Shea Joint Venture v. City of Evanston
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-12-27· cited 46×
• Spencer v. Health Force, Inc.
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2005-01-31· cited 43×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Coe
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2006-10-17· cited 35×
• Illinois Farmers Insurance v. Hall
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2006-02-14· cited 34×
• Millennium Park Joint Venture, LLC v. Houlihan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-06-29· cited 10×
• Williams v. Manchester
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-03-16· cited 10×
• 7-Eleven, Inc. v. Dar
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-12-27· cited 6×
• Kunz v. Little Company of Mary Hosptial and Health Care Centers
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-05-25· cited 6×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-10-22· cited 416×
• Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1993-10-21· cited 404×
• Travelers Insurance v. Eljer Manufacturing, Inc.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2001-09-20· cited 334×
• First Springfield Bank & Trust v. Galman
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1999-10-21· cited 240×
• MacK v. Ford Motor Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-06-28· cited 39×
• Carter v. Skokie Valley Detective Agency, Ltd.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-12-06· cited 25×
• Prowell v. Loretto Hospital
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2003-06-11· cited 23×