Geimer v. Chicago Park Dist.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing common-law rule that municipalities are not liable in tort and owe no duty to individual members of the general public for failure to enforce local laws and ordinances
• recognizing common-law rule that municipalities are not liable in tort and owe no duty to individual members of the general public for failure to enforce local laws and ordinances
• recognizing common-law rule that municipalities are not liable in tort and owe no duty to individual members of the general public for failure to enforce local laws and ordinances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Barnett v. Zion Park District
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-04-18· cited 337×
• Jane Doe v. Village of Arlington Heights
  Seventh Circuit· 2015-04-13· cited 143×
• Calloway v. Kinkelaar
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1995-12-21· cited 128×
• Floyd Ex Rel. Floyd v. Rockford Park Dist.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2005-01-12· cited 47×
• Hudson v. City of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2007-12-14· cited 46×
• Marlo McDowell v. Village of Lansing
  Seventh Circuit· 2014-08-18· cited 35×
• Payne v. Shelby County Commission
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2008-12-19· cited 7×
• Ex parte City of Orange Beach PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS (In re: Sara Pearl Fahrmann, individually and as personal representative of the Estate of Patrick Christopher Fahrmann v. City of Orange Beach) (Baldwin Circuit Court: CV-21-901218).
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2025-04-04
• Dennis Short and Sammye M. Short v. Bolivar County Board of Supervisors, Eddie Andrew Williams III, Donny Whitten, Preston Billings, James McBride, and Larry L. King, Individually and in their Official Capacity as Supervisors of Bolivar County, Mississippi
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2020-08-18

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1967-05-18· cited 2,326×
• Kirk v. Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-10-05· cited 451×
• Doe v. Calumet City
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-08-04· cited 322×
• Rowe v. State Bank of Lombard
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-09-22· cited 246×
• Burdinie v. Village of Glendale Heights
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1990-11-30· cited 214×
• Ziemba v. Mierzwa
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1991-01-31· cited 208×
• Lynch v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF COLLINSVILLE COMMUNITY UNIT DIST.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1980-09-15· cited 190×
• Curtis v. County of Cook
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1983-10-21· cited 163×
• Estate of Johnson v. Condell Memorial Hospital
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-02-11· cited 152×
• Ferentchak v. Village of Frankfort
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1985-01-23· cited 91×
• Dunn v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-03-29· cited 89×
• Stigler v. City of Chicago
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1971-03-16· cited 75×
• Popp v. Cash Station, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-12-04· cited 50×
• Blankenship v. Peoria Park District
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-09-23· cited 49×
• Quinn v. Sigma Rho Chapter of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-06-01· cited 47×
• Jackson v. Chicago Board of Education
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-12-29· cited 47×
• Marvin v. Chicago Transit Authority
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-02-04· cited 44×
• Fryman v. JMK/Skewer, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-10-16· cited 37×
• Poelker v. Warrensburg-Latham Community Unit School District No. 11
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-09-30· cited 35×
• Geimer v. Chicago Park District
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-05-05· cited 34×