Hefty v. Comprehensive Care Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in an “extreme case” on a negligence question usually reserved for the jury
• affirming grant of summary judgment and noting that “a court can decide that no reasonable fact- finder could find the risk foreseeable” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• affirming grant of summary judg- ment and noting that “a court can decide that no reasonable factfinder could find the risk foreseeable” (internal quota- tion marks omitted)
• an illustration of the type of harmful event that was not foreseeable as a matter of law
• an illustration of the type of harmful event that was not foreseeable as a matter of law
• “There is sufficient evidence of factual causation * * *. Rather, the critical issue is whether plaintiffs market losses were a reasonably foreseeable result of defendant’s wrongful conduct.”

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Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Piazza v. Kellim
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2016-07-21· cited 62×
• Najjar v. Safeway, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2005-12-28· cited 16×
• Sande v. City of Portland
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2002-12-11· cited 10×
• Buchler v. State Ex Rel. Oregon Corrections Division
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1990-12-12· cited 5×
• Dodge v. Darritt Construction, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1997-03-05· cited 4×
• Fields v. Jantec, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1992-09-30· cited 2×
• Bailey v. Lewis Farm, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2006-07-26· cited 2×
• Tozer v. Katerra Construction LLC
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2025-10-15· cited 1×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fazzolari v. Portland School District No. 1J
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1987-03-17· cited 418×
• Norwest v. Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1982-10-05· cited 170×
• Stewart v. Jefferson Plywood Company
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1970-05-28· cited 150×
• Hale v. Groce
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1987-11-03· cited 111×
• Donaca v. Curry County
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1987-03-17· cited 95×
• Stanfield v. Laccoarce
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1980-03-04· cited 44×
• Hefty v. Comprehensive Care Corporation
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1988-04-06· cited 3×

Other cases named Hefty v. Comprehensive Care Corporation

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Hefty v. Comprehensive Care Corporation
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1988-04-06· cited 3×