Adams v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, having undertaken to carry out fire code inspections, the State had a duty of reasonable care to carry them out and enforce fire regulations non-negligently
• concluding the public-duty “doctrine is in reality a form of sovereign immunity, which is a matter dealt with by statute . . . and not to be amplified by court- created doctrine”
• concluding the public-duty “doctrine is in reality a form of sovereign immunity, which is a matter dealt with by statute . . . and not to be amplified by court- created doctrine”
• discussing persons to whom common law duty assumed by undertaking fire and safety inspection activities is owed
• acting to ensure correction of and/or posting warnings of fire code violations discovered by the state during inspection of building
• acting to ensure correction of and/or posting warnings of fire code violations discovered by the state during inspection of building

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

137 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gordon v. Bridgeport Housing Authority
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-07-05· cited 1,206×
• Roger Turbe v. Government of the Virgin Islands, Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority
  Third Circuit· 1991-07-11· cited 405×
• Shore v. Town of Stonington
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-05-18· cited 403×
• Trianon Park Condominium v. City of Hialeah
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-04-04· cited 325×
• Chambers-Castanes v. King County
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-09-15· cited 207×
• Brennen v. City of Eugene
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1979-02-27· cited 205×
• Beaudrie v. Henderson
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2001-07-27· cited 201×
• Doe-3 v. McLean County Unit District No. 5 Board of Directors
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2012-08-09· cited 201×
• Southers v. City of Farmington
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2008-09-30· cited 195×
• Halvorson v. Dahl
  Washington Supreme Court· 1978-02-16· cited 190×
• Wallace v. Ohio Department of Commerce
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2002-09-04· cited 188×
• Wallace v. Ohio Dept. of Commerce
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2002-09-04· cited 159×
• Schear v. Board of County Commissioners
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1984-08-06· cited 155×
• Beal v. City of Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-04-02· cited 145×
• Beal for Martinez v. City of Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1998-04-02· cited 142×
• J & B Development Co. v. King County
  Washington Supreme Court· 1983-09-15· cited 138×
• Dinsky v. Town of Framingham
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-20· cited 137×
• Leake v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1986-06-09· cited 135×
• Cracraft v. City of St. Louis Park
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-04-27· cited 134×
• Ezell v. Cockrell
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-06-05· cited 118×

Cites

42 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Dalehite v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1953-06-08· cited 1,757×
• Indian Towing Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-11-21· cited 1,289×
• Gregoire v. Biddle
  Second Circuit· 1949-10-24· cited 876×
• Muskopf v. Corning Hospital District
  California Supreme Court· 1961-01-27· cited 527×
• Johnson v. State of California
  California Supreme Court· 1968-12-04· cited 504×
• Nelson v. Union Wire Rope Corp.
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1964-03-18· cited 429×
• Schuster v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1958-11-11· cited 218×
• Richard J. Griffin and Mary Jane Griffin, His Wife v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1974-06-25· cited 217×
• Motyka v. City of Amsterdam
  New York Court of Appeals· 1965-01-14· cited 147×
• State v. Abbott
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1972-06-16· cited 145×
• State v. Phillips
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1970-06-05· cited 119×
• Modlin v. City of Miami Beach
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1967-04-28· cited 109×
• City of Fairbanks v. Schaible
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1962-08-10· cited 105×
• Campbell v. City of Bellevue
  Washington Supreme Court· 1975-01-09· cited 105×
• Beasley v. MacDonald Engineering Co.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1971-06-30· cited 102×
• Mrs. Cordie Ola Fair v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-05-25· cited 98×
• Sims v. American Casualty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-03-15· cited 96×
• Runkel v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1953-06-29· cited 87×
• Fabricius v. Montgomery Elevator Company
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1963-04-09· cited 85×
• Smullen v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1971-02-25· cited 79×