Williams v. Foster

How courts have described this case

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

• addressing the rescue doctrine and further noting that the rescuer might incur injuries in doing so and, if the defendant is negligent toward the rescuee, he or she is also negligent toward the rescuer
• rescuer sues manufacturer of water heater for injuries suffered rescuing family from burning home
• injured volunteer fireman sues manufacturer of haystacker machine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Dillard v. Pittway Corp.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1998-06-19· cited 15×
• Suchy v. The City of Geneva
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2014-05-20· cited 13×
• Strickland v. Kotecki
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-07-15· cited 8×
• McCoy v. American Suzuki Motor Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1997-05-01· cited 4×
• Tannehill v. Costello
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-05-10· cited 4×
• Reed v. Ault
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2012-05-03· cited 3×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1967-05-18· cited 2,326×
• Illinois State Chamber of Commerce v. Pollution Control Board
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1979-12-03· cited 103×
• In Re Owens
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-12-06· cited 67×
• Seibutis v. Smith
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-05-01· cited 16×
• McGinty v. Nissen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-09-28· cited 10×