Collins v. City and County of San Francisco

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that false arrest is “but one way of committing a false imprisonment, and they are distinguishable only in terminology”
• stating that false arrest is “but one way of committing a false imprisonment, and they are distinguishable only in terminology”
• stating that false arrest is “but one way of committing a false impris- onment, and they are distinguishable only in terminology”
• stating that false arrest is “but one way of committing a false imprisonment, and they are distinguishable only in terminology”
• stating that “ ‘false arrest’ and ‘false imprisonment’ are not separate torts. False arrest is but one way of committing a false imprisonment, and they are distinguishable only in terminology.”
• under California law, false arrest and false imprisonment are not separate torts; instead, a 15 false arrest is considered a way to commit false imprisonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).