Jagger v. Mohawk Mountain Ski Area, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that skiers had duty of care to fellow skiers because \requiring skiers to participate in the reasonable manner prescribed by the rules of the sport actually will promote participation in the sport of skiing\ by remedying harms and protecting safety
• “the proper construction of any statute must take into account the mandates of related statutes governing the same general subject matter” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[F]or inherent hazards, ski area operators owe skiers no duty of care and skiers assume the risk of those hazards in the primary sense.”
• “For those hazards which are not an innate part of the sport of skiing, or over which an operator can act reasonably to eliminate or minimize the potential for harm, operators owe skiers a duty of reasonable care.”
• 36 Conn. L. Rptr. 259

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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• Angland v. Mountain Creek Resort, Inc.
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• Hanks v. Powder Ridge Restaurant Corp.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-11-29· cited 70×
• Gemmink v. Jay Peak Inc.
  Second Circuit· 2015-11-30· cited 66×
• Manifold v. Ragaglia
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-12-28· cited 30×
• Miller's Pond Co., LLC v. City of New London
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-06-07· cited 29×
• Horvath v. Ish
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2012-11-20· cited 29×
• Brett Stone Painting & Maintenance, LLC v. New England Bank
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2013-07-02· cited 21×
• Right v. Breen
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-02-28· cited 20×
• Curran v. Kroll
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2009-12-15· cited 14×
• Schweiger v. Amica Mutual Insurance
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2008-10-07· cited 9×
• Gagliano v. Advanced Specialty Care, P.C.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-08-14· cited 9×
• Aldana v. Air East Airways, Inc.
  D. Connecticut· 2007-03-14· cited 8×
• Gonzalez v. O & G Industries, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-12-30· cited 8×
• Southern New England Telephone Co. v. Department of Public Utility Control
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-06-21· cited 7×
• Sengchanthong v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-03-13· cited 7×
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Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Waters v. Autuori
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-05-07· cited 485×
• Nowak v. Nowak
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1978-05-09· cited 234×
• Jaworski v. Kiernan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-06-17· cited 140×
• City of Waterbury v. Town of Washington
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-07-02· cited 132×
• Clover v. Snowbird Ski Resort
  Utah Supreme Court· 1991-03-01· cited 127×
• Hughes v. Seven Springs Farm, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-12-05· cited 99×
• Nabozny v. Barnhill
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-07-23· cited 94×
• Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Department of Public Utility Control
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-09-30· cited 92×
• Cheong v. Antablin
  California Supreme Court· 1997-11-24· cited 85×
• Sunday v. Stratton Corp.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1978-06-06· cited 78×
• Harp v. King
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-12-09· cited 71×
• LePage v. Horne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-12-03· cited 60×
• Dow & Condon, Inc. v. Brookfield Development Corp.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-11-11· cited 52×
• Connelly v. Mammoth Mountain Ski Area
  California Court of Appeal· 1995-09-29· cited 43×
• Gartrell v. Department of Correction
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-01-15· cited 35×
• Novak v. Virene
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-12-27· cited 27×
• Pelletier v. Sordoni
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-07-01· cited 27×
• Rayeski v. Gunstock Area
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2001-06-14· cited 13×