Bethel v. New York City Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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

• “[A] common carrier is subject to the same duty of care as any other potential tortfeasor — reasonable care under all of the circumstances of the particular case.”
• common carrier’s duty in New York is to use “reasonable care under the circumstances”
• a common carrier’s duty of care arises upon a passenger’s boarding
• noting the “primitive safety features” of steam railroads

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).