Turner v. Roman Catholic Diocese

How courts have described this case

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

• holding negligence claim does not violate First Amendment because the standard of care is measured by secular legal standards, not canon law
• noting common law establishes the scope of the duty and a church’s duty to protect minors from sexual abuse is not different from the duty owed by other institutions to which the common law applies
• issue of whether plaintiff was on inquiry notice of Diocese’s potential liability of church leadership was issue for the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• In re Estate of Alden v. Alden v. Alden
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-07-08· cited 42×
• Wisniewski v. Diocese of Belleville
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2011-01-13· cited 26×
• Pease v. Windsor Development Review Board
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-09-29· cited 23×
• Vermont Mutual Insurance v. Parsons Hill Partnership
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2010-06-04· cited 16×
• State v. Memoli
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-02-10· cited 13×
• Allied Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Good
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-12-31· cited 12×
• State v. McCarthy
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2012-05-04· cited 10×
• Clarke v. Abate
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2013-08-09· cited 7×
• Cheryl J. Brown v. State of Vermont
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2018-01-12· cited 7×
• John C. Abajian, M.D. and Margaret C. Abajian v. TruexCullins, Inc. and Thermal Efficiency Construction, Ltd.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2017-08-25· cited 7×
• State v. Jason Atherton a/k/a Melton
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2016-02-26· cited 5×
• State v. Jay H. Orost
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2025-03-28· cited 4×
• Zachariah Blondin v. Milton Town School District
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2021-01-15· cited 3×
• Lewis v. Bellows Falls Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
  D. Vermont· 2015-03-25· cited 3×
• McCormack v. Rutland Hospital, Inc. d/b/a Rutland Regional Medical Center and DiMuzio
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2013-08-02· cited 1×
• Lewis v. Bellows Falls Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
  D. Vermont· 2017-03-30· cited 1×
• In Re Cathedral of the Immaculate Parish Charitable Trust Appeal (Carolyn Bates, Appellants)
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2024-12-06· cited 1×
• Norman Redwing v. The Catholic Bishop For The Diocese of Memphis - Dissenting
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-05-27
• Parks v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, Vt., Inc.
  Vermont Superior Court· 2012-10-18
• Downing Act 250 Application
  Vermont Superior Court· 2012-05-10

Cites

79 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Chambers v. Nasco, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1991-08-02· cited 6,250×
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1940-05-20· cited 3,669×
• Wisconsin v. Yoder
  Supreme Court· 1972-05-15· cited 3,250×
• Lemon v. Kurtzman
  Supreme Court· 1971-10-12· cited 3,142×
• Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of Ore. v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 2,569×
• Arizona v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 2,314×
• City of Boerne v. Flores
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-25· cited 1,926×
• Agostini v. Felton
  Supreme Court· 1997-06-23· cited 1,924×
• Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-11· cited 1,769×
• People v. Wheeler
  California Supreme Court· 1978-09-25· cited 1,612×
• Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 1,118×
• Johnson v. California
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-13· cited 1,022×
• Hernandez v. Commissioner
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-11· cited 946×
• Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church
  Supreme Court· 1969-01-27· cited 850×
• United States v. Martinez-Salazar
  Supreme Court· 2000-01-19· cited 746×
• Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America
  Supreme Court· 1952-11-24· cited 689×
• Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 320×
• Mitchell v. Helms
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-28· cited 246×
• Zumpano v. Quinn
  New York Court of Appeals· 2006-02-21· cited 231×