McPherson v. State Ex Rel. Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the assault of a tenant by a stranger in the laundry room of the apartment complex “did not result from some strange concatenation of highly unusual circumstances” (internal quotation omitted)
• emphasizing that foreseeability is a question that should be left to the jury except in “extreme cases”
• explaining that probability of harm, and therefore reasonable foreseeability, decreases as the number of steps between a defendant’s action and the plaintiffs harm increases
• outlining that approach following Fazzolari where special relationship is invoked
• the scope of a landlord’s duty to its tenants includes a “duty to take reasonable steps to protect tenants in the property’s common areas from reasonably foreseeable criminal acts by third persons”
• the scope of a landlord’s duty to its tenants includes a “duty to take reasonable steps to protect tenants in the property’s common areas from reasonably foreseeable criminal acts by third persons”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).