Eleanor T. Johnson v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

How courts have described this case

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• \Allowing an individual to recover for injuries she has actively invited would provide an incentive — in the form of expected compensation for her heirs if not for herself — for a suicidal or financially desperate person to act upon her self-destructive impulses.\
• “Allowing an individual to recover for injuries she has actively invited would provide an incentive — in the form of expected compensation for her heirs if not for herself — for a suicidal or financially desperate person to act upon her self-destructive impulses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).