Ray v. Cock Robin, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the trial court did not err in refusing to permit expert testimony of a traffic engineer when an average person would know and comprehend that guardrails, barriers, or blocks have the effect of slowing, stopping, or deflecting a vehicle from coming onto the premises
• error not to admit evidence of prior accidents for purposes of jury's assessment of foreseeability of accident involving out of control vehicle
• a jury could conclude that defendant could “reasonably foresee or anticipate that an out-of-control vehicle could enter into the picnic area” where there was no barrier and there had been a prior incident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Needy v. Sparks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-07-01· cited 86×
• Ray v. Cock Robin, Inc.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1974-03-29· cited 80×
• Nelson v. Commonwealth Edison Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-05-04· cited 70×
• Hernandez v. Power Construction Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1978-10-06· cited 69×
• Kavanaugh v. Midwest Club, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1987-12-18· cited 62×
• Fawley v. Martin's Supermarkets, Inc.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-07-26· cited 54×
• Martin v. McDonald's Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-05-03· cited 48×
• Van Steemburg v. General Aviation, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-02-19· cited 31×
• Henderson v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-05-19· cited 29×
• Hirn v. Edgewater Hospital
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-07-21· cited 23×
• Pease v. ACE HARDWARE HOME CENTER OF ROUND LAKE NO. 252c
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1986-09-24· cited 21×
• Dalmo Sales of Wheaton, Inc. v. Steinberg
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-10-18· cited 19×
• Phelan v. Santelli
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-07-11· cited 18×
• Stambaugh v. Central Illinois Light Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-10-14· cited 17×
• L. D. Brinkman & Company-Midwest v. National Sponge Cushion Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-08-31· cited 16×
• Templeton v. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-11-19· cited 15×
• First National Bank of Normal v. Illinois Central Gulf Railroad
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1978-07-14· cited 13×
• Churchill v. Norfolk & Western Railway Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1977-03-24· cited 13×
• Prather v. Lockwood
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1974-05-02· cited 12×
• Nicholson v. MGM CORPORATION
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-10-08· cited 11×

Cites

24 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×
• Ney v. Yellow Cab Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1954-01-20· cited 372×
• Merlo v. Public Service Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1942-11-17· cited 369×
• Flynn v. Vancil
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-11-22· cited 141×
• Illinois Central R. R. Co. v. Oswald
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1930-02-21· cited 123×
• Marut v. Costello
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1966-01-25· cited 106×
• Sutkowski v. Universal Marion Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1972-04-18· cited 87×
• Miller v. Pillsbury Co.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1965-11-19· cited 84×
• Blue v. St. Clair Country Club
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1955-11-23· cited 58×
• Ostergard v. Frisch
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1948-02-16· cited 42×
• Admiral Oasis Hotel Corp. v. Home Gas Industries, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1965-11-23· cited 40×
• Watkins v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1957-12-20· cited 40×
• Moore v. Bloomington, Decatur & Champaign Railroad
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1920-10-23· cited 38×
• Abramson v. Levinson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1969-04-25· cited 37×
• Kinsch v. Di Vito Const. Co., Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1964-12-14· cited 31×
• Merchants National Bank v. Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1970-03-23· cited 27×
• Esderts v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1966-07-14· cited 24×
• Shepard v. City of Aurora
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1955-03-08· cited 19×
• Smith v. City of Rock Island
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1959-10-13· cited 14×
• Linneen v. City of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1941-05-13· cited 13×