168 N.C. App. 310 - Lassiter v. Cohn’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Braswell v. Braswell · Riss v. City of New York · Anderson v. Assimos · 121 N.C. App. 466 - Hedrick v. Rains · Hedrick v. Rains
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“municipality and its agents act for the benefit of the public, and therefore, there is no liability for the failure to furnish police protection to specific individuals.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Those instances where our Courts have intimated that a special relationship exists relate to some affirmative step taken by the police. These steps either provide a quid pro quo with a state’s witness or informant where a plaintiff would rely on an agreement with law enforcement, the basis of which most likely includes bargained for police protection in exchange for inculpatory testimony or information....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[i]t is placing this unreasonable hindsight based standard of liability upon a police officer when performing public duties which is exactly that which the public duty doctrine seeks to alleviate.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.