Racer v. Utterman

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that degree of fault is immaterial to recovery for strict liability claims, but sufficient conduct to give rise to a claim “may run from total innocence to deliberate intention to inflict harm”
• explaining that “a finding of fault sufficient to justify punishment is essential to recovery of [punitive] damages,” and the absence of constructive or actual knowledge supports an inference that the conduct “was not indifferent to or in conscious disregard of the safety of others”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).