Brown v. Ransweiler

How courts have described this case

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

• finding officer’s use of deadly force reasonable and not negligent 7 when a bystander was struck by bullet
• stating elements of negligence are (1) a legal duty to use due care, (2) breach of that duty, (3) the breach was the proximate or legal cause of the resulting injury, and (4) actual loss or damage resulting from the breach of the duty of care
• “Because federal civil rights claims of excessive use of force are the federal counterpart to state battery and wrongful death claims, federal cases are instructive in this area.”
• “Because federal civil rights claims of excessive use of force are the federal counterpart to state battery and wrongful death claims, federal cases are instructive in this area.”
• “There will virtually always be a range of conduct that is 13 reasonable.”
• “A state law battery claim is a 12 counterpart to a federal claim of excessive use of force. In both a plaintiff must prove that the 13 peace officer’s use of force was unreasonable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).