Burke v. 12 Rothschild's Liquor Mart, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the adoption of comparative negligence principles does not alter a joint tortfeasor’s full responsibility for a plaintiffs single, indivisible injury
• recognizing that the adoption of comparative negligence principles does not alter a joint tortfeasor's full responsibility for a plaintiff's single, indivisible injury
• recognizing that the adoption of comparative negligence principles does not alter a joint tortfeasor's full responsibility for a plaintiff's single, indivisible injury
• noting that “when the defendant’s conduct was willful and wanton, the plaintiff’s contributory negligence could not be raised as a defense to bar recovery”
• noting that willful and wanton conduct “requires a conscious choice of a course of action, either with knowledge of the serious danger to others involved in it or with knowledge of facts which would disclose this danger to any reasonable man”
• noting that willful and wanton conduct “requires a conscious choice of a course of action, either with knowledge of the serious danger to others involved in it or with knowledge of facts which would disclose this danger to any reasonable man”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).