Kooly v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that state had no duty of care to prevent fatal sledding accident where plaintiff’s injury was “more closely connected with the conduct of those other than [the defendant]”
• “Determining whether a duty exists in the type of case presented is the first analytical step in deciding whether a negligence action can be maintained.”
• declining to impose liability despite the fact that harm was foreseeable because the burden on the defendant and the consequences to the community were too harsh
• “[I]t is not possible to make the thousands of miles of state rights-of-way adjacent to highways safe for sledding. Any effort to do so would be both expensive and futile.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lynden Inc. v. Walker
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2001-09-14· cited 32×
• State v. Sandsness
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2003-05-23· cited 29×
• DeNardo v. GCI Communication Corp.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-08-20· cited 26×
• Hurn Ex Rel. D.H. v. Greenway
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2013-02-08· cited 24×
• Suzanne Matheny v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-12-04· cited 19×
• Angnabooguk v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2001-07-13· cited 17×
• Summer Sagoonick v. State of Alaska
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2022-01-28· cited 16×
• Estate of Mickelsen Ex Rel. Mickelsen v. North-Wend Foods, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2012-04-27· cited 15×
• Long v. Holland America Line Westours, Inc.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2001-07-13· cited 15×
• Kiokun v. State, Department of Public Safety
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2003-07-25· cited 14×
• Dore v. City of Fairbanks
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2001-09-28· cited 13×
• Steward v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2014-04-11· cited 9×
• United States Ex Rel. North Star Terminal & Stevedore Co. v. Nugget Construction, Inc.
  D. Alaska· 2006-07-28· cited 8×
• McCubbins v. State, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks & Recreation
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-03-05· cited 7×
• Arlene Tripp and Jack Tripp v. City and Borough of Juneau, Derek Bos, and Juneau Police Department
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2025-01-17· cited 3×
• McCubbins v. STATE, DNR
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1999-03-05
• Matheny, Suzanne v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-12-04
• Michael Carey-Thomann v. University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Board of Regents
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2026-05-01

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• D. S. W. ex rel. R. M. W. v. Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-05-22· cited 95×
• Wright v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1992-01-24· cited 89×
• Division of Corrections, Department of Health & Social Services v. Neakok
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1986-06-20· cited 81×
• City of Kotzebue v. McLean
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1985-08-20· cited 54×
• R.E. ex rel. D.E. v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1994-07-29· cited 48×
• Estate of Arrowwood Ex Rel. Loeb v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1995-05-12· cited 36×
• Far North Sanitation, Inc. v. Alaska Public Utilities Commission
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1992-02-07· cited 33×
• Schumacher v. City and Borough of Yakutat
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1997-08-15· cited 29×
• Hawks v. State, Department of Public Safety
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1995-12-29· cited 28×
• Stephens v. State, Department of Revenue
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-12-04· cited 28×
• Karen L. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Division of Family & Youth Services
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1998-02-06· cited 27×
• Earth Movers of Fairbanks, Inc. v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1984-11-16· cited 17×
• Busby v. Municipality of Anchorage
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1987-08-21· cited 15×
• Kenai Peninsula Borough v. Port Graham Corp.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1994-04-08· cited 10×