A carrier of persons for reward must use the utmost care and diligence for their safe carriage, must provide everything necessary for that purpose, and must exercise to that end a reasonable degree of skill.
Cal. Civ. Code § 2100
Carriage for Reward
Applied in 81 court decisions — leading case 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo (1973)
Most recently applied in 698 F. App'x 540 - Carla Mejia v. Greyhound Lines, Inc. (October 2017)
Enacted 1872.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.