Turcotte v. Fell

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that since passage of comparative negligence statute, assumption of risk is now subsumed in question whether defendant owed plaintiff duty of care
• concluding that a \reckless or intentional\ standard applied in a case involving a professional jockey injured during a horse race
• finding that the defendant owed “no more than a duty to avoid reckless or intentionally harmful conduct”
• applying the doctrine of primary assumption of the risk to horse racing despite a municipal regulation prohibiting \foul riding\
• discussing express assumption of risk, primary assumption of risk, secondary assumption of risk, consent and waiver
• “... the dismissal of the complaint against Fell, [the defendant’s] employee, mandates dismissal of the complaint against the employer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Custodi v. Town of Amherst
  New York Court of Appeals· 2012-10-30· cited 1,103×
• Benitez v. New York City Board of Education
  New York Court of Appeals· 1989-06-08· cited 820×
• Trupia v. Lake George Central School District
  New York Court of Appeals· 2010-04-06· cited 601×
• Bukowski v. Clarkson University
  New York Court of Appeals· 2012-06-05· cited 576×
• Lauer v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 2000-05-16· cited 497×
• Eiseman v. State
  New York Court of Appeals· 1987-07-09· cited 360×
• Owen v. R.J.S. Safety Equipment, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1992-04-02· cited 342×
• Sykes v. County of Erie
  New York Court of Appeals· 2000-03-30· cited 313×
• Heard v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-10-21· cited 269×
• Palladino v. Lindenhurst Union Free School District
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2011-05-24· cited 267×
• Hawkes v. Catatonk Golf Club, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2001-11-01· cited 263×
• Petrone v. Fernandez
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2008-07-08· cited 252×
• Chernoguz v. Mirrer Yeshiva Central Institute
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2014-10-08· cited 246×
• Sisino v. Island Motocross of New York, Inc.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2007-06-05· cited 227×
• Marchetti v. Kalish
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1990-08-15· cited 196×
• Southwest Key Program, Inc. v. Gil-Perez
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-07-03· cited 159×
• Jaworski v. Kiernan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-06-17· cited 140×
• Pfenning v. Lineman
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2011-05-18· cited 133×
• Ritchie-Gamester v. City of Berkley
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1999-07-30· cited 128×
• Domenico De Sole v. United States of America, Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association, United States Yacht Racing Union, Incorporated, Amici Curiae
  Fourth Circuit· 1991-11-21· cited 122×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Basso v. Miller
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-06-17· cited 1,277×
• Akins v. Glens Falls City School District
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-06-18· cited 822×
• Maddox v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1985-11-21· cited 567×
• Pulka v. Edelman
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-12-02· cited 496×
• Cole v. New York Racing Ass'n
  New York Court of Appeals· 1966-04-28· cited 275×
• Cole v. New York Racing Ass'n
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1965-12-13· cited 274×
• De Angelis v. Lutheran Medical Center
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-03-29· cited 183×
• Scurti v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-06-17· cited 153×
• Nabozny v. Barnhill
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1975-07-23· cited 94×
• Vogel v. West Mountain Corp.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1983-11-23· cited 50×
• Kimbar v. Estis
  New York Court of Appeals· 1956-07-11· cited 41×
• Brown v. Poritzky
  New York Court of Appeals· 1972-05-03· cited 26×
• Scaduto v. State
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-01-07· cited 24×
• McGee v. Board of Education
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1962-03-27· cited 24×
• Davidoff v. Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-03-27· cited 21×
• Scaduto v. State
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-05-18· cited 19×
• Clapman v. City of New York
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-07-05· cited 8×

Other cases named Turcotte v. Fell

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Turcotte v. Fell
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1981-10-05· cited 7×
• Turcotte v. Fell
  New York Supreme Court· 1984-01-05· cited 3×
• Turcotte v. Fell
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-12-30· cited 1×
• Turcotte v. Fell
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-12-30