Dowdell v. Wilhelm

How courts have described this case

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

• holding inmate’s fatal shooting of bystander several hours after and six miles away from courthouse was too remote to be a foreseeable consequence of sheriff’s deputies’ alleged 16 negligence in allowing his escape
• reversing denial of motion for summary judgment when intervening criminal act was superseding proximate cause of death, and noting that “[njormally, questions of proximate cause are for the jury, hut plain and indisputable cases such as this may be decided by the court as a matter of law”
• “Normally, questions of proximate cause are for the jury, but plain and indisputable cases . . . may be decided by the court as a matter of law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).