Statutory duty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 238 U.S. 243 - St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad v. Conarty · 1915Most cited · 189 citing opinions
scope of liability
Where a duty is imposed for the protection of persons in particular situations or relations a breach of it which happens to result in injury to one in an altogether different situation or relation is not, as to him, actionable.
How often courts cite the case defining “Statutory duty”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Statutory duty” — 189 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.