Collins v. Schweitzer, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 1491 · 1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2014
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Tw Electrical Service Inc Nn v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Association · Fu-Kong Tzung Jean Tzung v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company, and Does 1 Through 100, Inclusive · T.W. Electrical Service, Inc. v. Pacific Electrical Contractors Ass'n · 185 W. Va. 684 - Lewis v. Canaan Valley Resorts, Inc. · Sharp v. W.H. Moore, Inc.
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“) is a Colorado corporation which promotes amateur ski racing around the country by providing ski areas with a package program for staging races and by keeping a central database of skier times. 3 At the time of his accident, Collins was an Idaho resident (though he is now a Washington resident) and an expert skier. He had a season ski pass to the Schweitzer Mountain Resort. He was an experienced amateur racer, having competed in dozens of NASTAR races and been a top-ranked skier in the Northwest in his age group. 4 On January 31, 1988, Collins skied his last race. Schweitzer had set up a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to ski area operators. See Northcutt, 117 Idaho at 357 , 787 P.2d at 1165 (identifying those actions for which ski area operators remain liable) 8 The non-Idaho cases cited by Collins to support the proposition that an agent's personal immunity from tort liability does not necessarily extend to a principal are inapposite; they deal with situations where the agent clearly committed a tort but was immunized from liability, whereas here Schweitzer never committed a tort because Collins assumed the risk of lift tower collisions 1 NASTAR is the acronym for”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“6 Likewise, two other cases the majority cites, Schmitz v. Cannonsburg Skiing Corp., 170 Mich.App. 692 , 428 N.W.2d 742, 744 (1988), appeal denied, 432 Mich. 865 (1989) (skier struck a tree on the ski slope) and Berniger v. Meadow Green-Wildcat Corp., 945 F.2d 4 (1st Cir.1991) (skier struck netting on the side of a trail used to mark hazards), are distinguishable because they involve inherent risks of skiing, not operator negligence 7 The appellees state:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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