Joshua S. v. Casey

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a priest’s sexual abuse of a child was, as a matter of law, not within the scope of employment
• upholding dismissal of respondeat superior claim for sexual abuse of a child by a priest
• church did not hire minister to sexually abuse congregation nor did it have reason to foresee such abuse
• alleged sexual assault by clergy was not within scope of employment
• school, church and diocese were not liable under theory of respondeat superior for alleged abuse because abuse was not within scope of employment and could not be said to have been in furtherance of school’s, church’s or diocese’s business
• sexual abuse of a child by a priest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• N.H. v. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1999-11-02· cited 74×
• Doe v. Alsaud
  S.D. New York· 2014-04-03· cited 46×
• Langford v. Roman Catholic Diocese
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-04-10· cited 31×
• Wende C. v. United Methodist Church
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2004-04-30· cited 29×
• Langford v. Roman Catholic Diocese
  New York Supreme Court· 1998-06-23· cited 23×
• Sharon B. v. Reverend S.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1997-11-19· cited 19×
• Paul J.H. v. Lum
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-02-01· cited 19×
• Haybeck v. Prodigy Services Co.
  S.D. New York· 1996-11-12· cited 14×
• Curtis v. City of Utica
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1994-11-16· cited 14×
• Ehrens v. Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
  S.D. New York· 2003-06-18· cited 8×
• Curtis v. County of Oneida
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1998-03-13· cited 7×
• Vitucci v. City of New York
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2000-05-30· cited 6×
• Hahne v. State
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2002-01-24· cited 6×
• Tserotas v. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North & South America
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1998-06-01· cited 5×
• Teixeira v. Korth
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-12-30· cited 5×
• Murray v. Research Foundation of the State University
  New York Supreme Court· 2000-04-24· cited 5×
• Stanley v. United States
  W.D. New York· 1995-05-17· cited 3×
• Forester v. State
  New York State Court of Claims· 1996-03-18· cited 2×
• MAZZARELLA, JOHN v. SYRACUSE DIOCESE
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2012-11-09
• Mazzarella v. Syracuse Diocese
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2012-11-09

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Byrd v. Faber
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1991-01-16· cited 528×
• Nally v. Grace Community Church
  California Supreme Court· 1988-11-23· cited 356×
• Moses v. Diocese of Colorado
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1993-11-15· cited 198×
• Schmidt v. Bishop
  S.D. New York· 1991-12-06· cited 96×
• Mazzaferro v. Albany Motel Enterprises, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-05-14· cited 49×
• Cornell v. State
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-03-29· cited 44×
• White v. Blackburn
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1990-02-12· cited 21×
• Noto v. St. Vincent's Hospital & Medical Center
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-04-26· cited 19×
• Koren v. Weihs
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1993-02-09· cited 9×