Heck v. Robey

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to address the continuing viability of the fireman’s rule, but refusing to extend it to bar an action by a paramedic
• assumption of risk \is subsumed by the concept of fault in [Indiana's] comparative fault scheme.\
• assumption of risk “is subsumed by the concept of fault in [Indiana’s] comparative fault scheme.”
• firefighter's rule did not bar paramedic's claim when patient's acts of negligence took place after paramedic's arrival at scene, when patient was kicking and flailing during extrication from car
• “As a component of fault, [incurred risk] is subject to the Act’s apportionment scheme that reduces or eliminates the plaintiffs recovery depending on the degree of the plaintiffs fault.”
• paramedic’s duty to accident victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).