Dallas Area Rapid Transit v. Whitley

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that there must be nexus between use of property and plaintiff’s injury, and that nexus requires more than mere involvement of property
• holding that immunity was not waived for bus driver’s alleged failure to supervise the public
• holding that government driver’s failure to supervise the public, not the use of the bus, caused passenger’s injury, and thus conduct did not fall within waiver of immunity
• holding that plaintiff who was threatened on a public bus by another passenger and then attacked when both exited did not establish waiver of governmental immunity because his injuries did not arise from the use of the bus
• holding that plaintiff who was threatened on a public bus by another passenger and then attacked when both exited did not establish waiver of governmental immunity because his injuries did not arise from the use of the bus
• noting that supreme court has “consistently required a nexus between the operation and use of the motor-driven vehicle or equipment and a plaintiff’s injuries”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).