State v. Hatfield

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a seller of alcohol is not liable for the injuries a patron may cause as a result of his intoxication because the patron is responsible for his own torts
• suggesting, by examining an out-of-state case, that a tavern owner may be liable to an injured third party if, for example, he or she placed a drunken patron into a vehicle and forced him to operate it
• absent a statute to the contrary, third parties do not have a cause of action against a vendor of alcoholic beverages for injuries negligently caused by an intoxicated patron

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

62 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Rappaport v. Nichols
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1959-11-23· cited 385×
• Vesely v. Sager
  California Supreme Court· 1971-06-24· cited 349×
• Ling v. Jan's Liquors
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-07-17· cited 224×
• Cole v. Rush
  California Supreme Court· 1955-10-28· cited 173×
• Cunningham v. Brown
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1961-01-20· cited 136×
• Dickinson v. Edwards
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-03-27· cited 133×
• McClellan v. Tottenhoff
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 131×
• Council of Co-Owners Atlantis Condominium, Inc. v. Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-11-14· cited 125×
• Adamian v. Three Sons, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1968-01-05· cited 115×
• Hamm v. Carson City Nugget, Inc.
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1969-02-18· cited 104×
• Duane S. Marusa v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1973-08-21· cited 99×
• Lamb v. Hopkins
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-06-05· cited 99×
• Felder v. Butler
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1981-12-23· cited 97×
• Pike v. George
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1968-11-29· cited 88×
• Williamson v. the Old Brogue, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-11-26· cited 80×
• Carr v. Turner
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1965-01-11· cited 78×
• Lyons v. Nasby
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-03-20· cited 75×
• Halvorson v. Birchfield Boiler, Inc.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-09-25· cited 73×
• Hostetler v. Ward
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-08-28· cited 68×
• Nazareno v. Urie
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-12-31· cited 65×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Thomas v. . Winchester
  New York Court of Appeals· 1852-07-05· cited 269×
• Freese v. Tripp
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1873-09-15· cited 44×
• Houlihan v. McCall
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-10-01· cited 41×
• Dunlap v. Wagner
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1882-11-15· cited 33×
• State v. M. Fox & Son
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1894-06-21· cited 20×
• Currier v. McKee
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1904-12-13· cited 17×
• Struble v. Nodwift
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1858-11-22· cited 17×
• Cloverland Farms Dairy, Inc. v. Ellin
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1950-07-19· cited 11×