Smit v. Anderson

How courts have described this case

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

• Absent a contrary showing, jurors are “presumed to have understood and heeded the trial court’s instructions.”
• Absent a contrary showing, jurors are “presumed to have understood and heeded the trial court’s instructions.”
• “In nonfeasance cases, the existence of a duty has been recognized only in a limited number of special relationships between the parties such that social policy justifies the imposition of a duty to act.”
• the elements of a negligence claim are duty, breach, causation, and damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).