494 So. 2d 1342 - Phillips v. Roy’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 17 Cal. 3d 425 - Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California · Dixie Drive It Yourself System New Orleans Co. v. American Beverage Co. · Hill v. Lundin & Associates, Inc. · 100 Wash. 2d 421 - Petersen v. State · State v. Roy
Most-quoted passages
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“Assuming that the state hospital owed a general duty to the public to exercise reasonable care in the discharge of potentially dangerous patients, that duty did not extend to this particular victim or ... did not include within its scope the protection of this victim from the particular risk he encountered. The connection between the conduct complained of and the harm suffered is too attenuated to impose liability on the state, whether it be explained as a lack of proximate or legal cause, lack of duty owed to this victim, or lack of inclusion of this risk within the scope of the duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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