Meyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
2
states following
March 2018
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brandon v. County of Richardson · Kopecky v. National Farms, Inc. · Woollen v. State · Rose v. Buffalo Air Service · Vilas v. Steavenson
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) In case of death, injury, or property damage to any innocent third party proximately caused by the action of a law enforcement officer employed by a political subdivision during vehicular pursuit, damages shall be paid to such third party by the political subdivision employing the officer. (5) For purposes of this section, vehicular pursuit means an active attempt by a law enforcement officer operating a motor vehicle to apprehend one or more occupants of another motor vehicle, when the driver of the fleeing vehicle is or should be aware of such attempt and is resisting apprehension by maintaining or increasing his or her speed, ignoring the officer, or attempting to elude the officer while driving at speeds in excess of those reasonable and proper under the conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he plain language of § 81-8,215.01 requires that the actions of a law enforcement officer during a vehicular pursuit be merely a proximate cause of the damage, and not the sole proximate cause. A proximate cause is a cause (1) that produces a result in a natural and continuous sequence and (2) without which the result would not have occurred.... ... A cause of an injury may be a proximate cause, notwithstanding that it acted through successive instruments of a series of events, if the instruments or events were combined in one continuous chain through which the force of the cause operated to produce the disaster.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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