Smith v. Florida Power and Light Co.

How courts have described this case

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• observing that duty in tort law \is a relational concept\ and that \[a] duty -6- is owed by a particular defendant to a particular plaintiff based on particular circumstances\
• “The reasonable specific foreseeability of a general zone of risk to a given plaintiff is an objective test . . . that recognizes that more is required than the mere general risk of injury that is concomitant to all human activity.”
• “Under the framework set forth by the supreme court, the zone of risk created by a defendant defines the scope of the defendant’s legal duty and the scope of the zone of risk is in turn determined by the foreseeability of a risk of harm to others.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).