Majewski v. Chicago Park District

How courts have described this case

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

• plaintiff barred from recovery when injured by falling on movable broken glass on football field
• immunity applied where plaintiff was injured while playing touch football on city field when he fell on broken glass
• plaintiff’s allegation that the defendant park district knew or should have known that broken glass was present on its football field was insufficient to state a cause of action for willful and wanton conduct
• willful and wanton conduct requires a conscious disregard for the safety of others
• willful and wanton conduct insufficiently pleaded, where the plaintiff failed to plead facts stating why the defendant knew or should have known about dangerous condition—“facts that demonstrate a conscious disregard for the safety of others”
• plaintiff injured by broken glass on football field

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Winfrey v. Chicago Park District
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-08-08· cited 61×
• Moore v. Chicago Park District
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2012-10-18· cited 45×
• Carter v. New Trier East High School
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-05-16· cited 35×
• Oravek v. Community School District 146
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-06-22· cited 32×
• Oropeza v. BOARD OF EDUC., CITY OF CHICAGO
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-11-18· cited 24×
• Brown v. Chicago Park District
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-10-18· cited 24×
• Ramos v. Waukegan Community Unit School District No. 60
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-10-02· cited 24×
• Washington v. Chicago Board of Education
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-09-28· cited 23×
• Callaghan v. VILLAGE OF CLARENDON HILLS
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-04-29· cited 22×
• Bialek v. Moraine Valley Community College School District 524
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-10-31· cited 21×
• Ramos v. WAUKEGAN COM. SCH. DIST.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1989-10-02· cited 19×
• Palmer v. Chicago Park District
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-12-28· cited 19×
• Straub v. City of Mt. Olive
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-01-28· cited 18×
• Hanover Ins. Co. v. BOARD OF EDUC., CITY OF CHICAGO
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-12-14· cited 18×
• Oravek v. Community School Dist. 146
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-06-22· cited 15×
• Pomaro v. Community Consolidated School District 21
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-12-27· cited 14×
• Harinek v. City of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-09-25· cited 12×
• Hoye v. Illinois Power Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-02-17· cited 9×
• Grundy v. Lincoln Park Zoo
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-08-01· cited 9×
• Illinois Union Insurance Co. v. Medline Industries, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2022-03-04· cited 9×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People Ex Rel. Fahner v. Carriage Way West, Inc.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1981-11-13· cited 152×
• Harvey v. MacKay
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-09-27· cited 36×
• Cook v. Askew
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-12-10· cited 29×
• Cipolla v. Bloom Township High School District No. 206
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-02-22· cited 23×
• Murphy v. Jewel Companies, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-11-27· cited 13×
• Jackson v. Board of Education
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-10-06· cited 6×