Burdette v. Marks

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a de facto special relationship existed between deputy detaining inmate and passerby, which imposed legal duty upon deputy to render assistance to passerby and protect him from the inmate’s attack
• recognizing that whether a special relationship between an officer and an individual exists depends on whether the officer reasonably could have foreseen that he would be expected to take affirmative action to protect the individual from harm
• spe-cial relationship existed between deputy and passerby which imposed legal duty upon deputy to render assistance to passerby and protect him from attack
• “In determining whether such a special relation existed, it is important to consider whether [the defendant] reasonably could have foreseen that he would be expected to take affirmative action to protect [the plaintiff].”
• considering duty of police officer to protect passerby from assailant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).