Burns v. Johnson

How courts have described this case

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

• refusing to find a duty even where the defendant’s employee had interacted with and repelled the vile remarks of the drunk male customer just before he, without the knowledge of the employee, grabbed another customer, dragged her into a field, and raped her
• trial court erred as a matter of law in failing to hold that the fifteen minutes between an individual making sexual advances to a store clerk and abducting and raping a store patron did not give rise to the duty to protect against third party criminal acts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Yuzefovsky v. St. John's Wood Apartments
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-01-12· cited 139×
• Thompson Ex Rel. Thompson v. Skate America, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-01-12· cited 112×
• L.A.C. Ex Rel. D.C. v. Ward Parkway Shopping Center Co.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2002-05-28· cited 92×
• Kellermann v. McDonough
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2009-11-05· cited 75×
• Holles v. Sunrise Terrace, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-01-08· cited 71×
• A.H. v. Rockingham Publishing Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-01-09· cited 55×
• Dudas v. Glenwood Golf Club, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2001-01-12· cited 42×
• Cline v. DUNLORA SOUTH, LLC
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-06-07· cited 25×
• Rambus Inc. v. Infineon Technologies AG
  Federal Circuit· 2003-01-29· cited 18×
• Facchetti v. Bridgewater College
  W.D. Virginia· 2016-03-30· cited 9×
• Amos v. NationsBank, N.A.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1998-09-18· cited 8×
• Howarth v. Rockingham Pub. Co., Inc.
  W.D. Virginia· 1998-10-01· cited 7×
• Rosen v. Red Roof Inns, Inc.
  E.D. Virginia· 1997-01-09· cited 2×
• Peterson v. Commonwealth
  Montgomery County Circuit Court· 2010-01-12· cited 2×
• Fox v. Encounters International
  D. Maryland· 2002-09-25· cited 1×
• Frazier v. Strobel
  Virginia Circuit Court· 2002-04-19· cited 1×
• Harrison v. Bittler
  Loudoun County Circuit Court· 2006-03-02· cited 1×
• Gilbertson v. Purdham
  Roanoke County Circuit Court· 2009-05-04· cited 1×
• Holmes v. Reid
  Norfolk County Circuit Court· 2010-07-09· cited 1×
• Rambus Inc. v. Infineon Technologies Ag
  Federal Circuit· 2003-04-04

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fox v. Custis
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 249×
• Wright v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-11-25· cited 79×
• Gupton v. Quicke
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1994-04-15· cited 20×