Illinois Central Railroad v. Eicher

How courts have described this case

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

• “A railroad company owes no duty to a person walking along its tracks without its invitation, either expressed or implied, except to refrain from wantonly or willfully injuring him, and to use reasonable care to avoid injury to him after he is discovered to be in peril ***.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

52 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1992-10-22· cited 416×
• Choate v. Indiana Harbor Belt R.R. Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2012-09-20· cited 94×
• Washington v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1976-11-15· cited 49×
• Trout v. Bank of Belleville
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-02-18· cited 37×
• Rodriguez v. Norfolk and Western Ry. Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-04-10· cited 32×
• Palmer v. Oregon Short Line R.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1908-11-23· cited 31×
• Mentesana v. LaFranco
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-05-31· cited 22×
• Quiroz v. Chicago Transit Authority
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2022-09-22· cited 21×
• Nosko v. O'Donnell
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1931-03-23· cited 18×
• Colls v. City of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-04-19· cited 17×
• Burns v. Chicago & Alton Railroad
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1923-01-17· cited 13×
• Thompson v. Cleveland, Cin., Chicago & St. Louis Ry. Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1907-04-18· cited 12×
• Scharf v. Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad
  Washington Supreme Court· 1916-08-21· cited 11×
• Higgins v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1958-02-28· cited 10×
• Bartlett v. Wabash Railroad
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1906-02-21· cited 10×
• Ingram v. Jackson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1917-06-18· cited 10×
• Lee v. Chicago Transit Authority
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-10-05· cited 9×
• Colby v. Chicago Junction Railway Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1920-01-12· cited 7×
• Ruwisch v. Knoebel
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1924-07-07· cited 7×
• Belt Railway Co. v. Charters
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1905-11-02· cited 6×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co. v. Bodemer
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1892-01-18· cited 100×
• Illinois Central Railroad v. Godfrey
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1874-01-15· cited 99×
• Illinois Central Railroad v. Hetherington
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1876-09-15· cited 69×
• Chicago & Alton Railroad v. Harrington
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1901-10-24· cited 64×
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad v. Murowski
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1899-04-17· cited 32×
• Illinois Steel Co. v. Novak
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1900-02-19· cited 23×
• Toledo, Peoria & Warsaw Railway Co. v. Deacon
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1872-01-15· cited 21×
• Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad v. Feehan
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1893-05-25· cited 4×
• Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. v. Johnson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1894-05-22· cited 2×