Harris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting “sweeping provision” in Tort Claims Act granting immunity to public entity and public employee for injury by one prisoner to another
• finding no liability where “[t]here had been no prior warning to any of the prison officials of the impending attack, nor had they been made aware of any circumstances calling for special precautions on their part”
• prison regulations related to the conduct of prison employees are not evidence of the standard of care owed to prisoners

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Henry v. New Jersey Department of Human Services
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2010-12-10· cited 227×
• Kenneth E. King v. Anderson County, Tennessee
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-11-21· cited 87×
• Matthews v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1978-05-31· cited 50×
• Saunders v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1982-06-03· cited 46×
• Strauss v. State
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1974-11-20· cited 20×
• Cooney v. Hooks
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1995-07-28· cited 15×
• Salazar v. Collins
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-03-18· cited 11×
• Zuidema v. Pedicano
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2004-11-24· cited 11×
• Tice v. Cramer
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1992-03-16· cited 8×
• White v. Lewis
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1978-02-14· cited 8×
• Barnard v. State
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1978-05-17· cited 7×
• Maule v. Conduit & Foundation Corp.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1973-07-02· cited 6×
• Perillo v. Dreher
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1974-01-16· cited 5×
• Popek v. STATE, DEPT. OF HUMAN SERV.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1990-01-31· cited 1×
• Bona v. Wynn
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1997-03-18· cited 1×
• Henry v. Government of Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands· 1975-05-07· cited 1×
• Davidson v. O'Lone
  Third Circuit· 1984-12-27· cited 1×
• David Luke Harvey v. Dickson County, Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2008-05-21
• Dean Kinningham v. State of TN
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-09-18
• Carl Hanks v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-07-02

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kusah v. McCorkle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1918-02-14· cited 58×
• State, Use, Clark v. Ferling
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1959-05-13· cited 48×
• Cohen v. United States
  N.D. Georgia· 1966-03-21· cited 44×
• Sheffield v. Turner
  Utah Supreme Court· 2003-01-02· cited 40×
• Ratliff v. Stanley
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1928-06-01· cited 32×
• Kelly v. Ogilvie
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1965-10-07· cited 28×
• Upchurch v. State
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1969-05-05· cited 27×
• Kelly v. Ogilvie
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1966-09-23· cited 24×
• Riggs v. German
  Washington Supreme Court· 1914-08-11· cited 20×
• Johnson v. United States Government
  E.D. Virginia· 1966-09-09· cited 15×
• Muniz v. United States
  S.D. New York· 1968-02-21· cited 14×
• City of Lexington v. Greenhow
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1970-03-06· cited 13×
• Gunther v. Johnson
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1899-07-01· cited 10×
• Adams v. State ex rel. Department of Institutions
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1971-04-19· cited 6×
• James A. Summers, Jr. v. R. F. Horton
  Fourth Circuit· 1971-06-07· cited 3×
• Meddletent v. United States
  D. South Dakota· 1970-04-28· cited 1×