Bartley v. Childers’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 108 Cal. App. 591 - Rovegno v. San Jose Knights of Columbus Hall Ass'n · Johnson v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad · McAtee v. Holland Furnace Co. · Terry v. Associated Stone Co. · Rogers v. Sullivan
Most-quoted passages
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“It is among the duties of the proprietor of a public swimming pool to make reasonable provisions to protect bathers in case of accident; to rescue those apparently in danger; and to act promptly to institute a search for a missing bather. 86 C.J.S. Theaters & Shows § 42 f., p. 736. The function of lifeguards is as much (and perhaps more) to rescue bathers in trouble and to revive those in a drowning condition as it is to keep bathers from getting in a drowning situation. Prevention of horseplay likewise has a dual purpose—to make it easier to discover bathers in danger as well as to keep them out of danger. Regulations for periodic clearances and bottom patrols of the pool are primarily for rescue and resuscitation purposes. And a divider rope may serve as a lifeline as well as a warning device.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. Hettinger
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.