Watson v. Metropolitan Transit Commission

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that safety issues and financial burdens he at the center of discretionary policy decisions
• holding that bus driver’s decision not to stop bus when gang members assaulted and threatened to kill passengers was discretionary
• holding that the decision by the Chief of Transit Police not to place security personnel on the bus where plaintiff was beaten was protected by statutory immunity
• holding that the decision by the Chief of Transit Police not to place security per sonnel on the bus where plaintiff was beaten was protected by statutory immunity
• stating that the government employer was entitled to vicarious official immunity despite the official not being named in the suit
• stating that the government employer was entitled to vicarious official immunity despite the official not being named in the suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jeffrey M. Kuha v. City of Minnetonka William Roth Kevin Anderson Dennis Warosh
  Eighth Circuit· 2004-04-27· cited 133×
• Schroeder v. St. Louis County
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-01-26· cited 86×
• Wiederholt v. City of Minneapolis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-07-09· cited 79×
• Anderson v. Anoka Hennepin Independent School District 11
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-05-06· cited 66×
• Gleason v. Metropolitan Council Transit Operations
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-07-30· cited 65×
• Mumm v. Mornson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-01-10· cited 61×
• Hassan v. City Of Minneapolis
  Eighth Circuit· 2007-05-31· cited 41×
• Gleason v. Metropolitan Council Transit Operations
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1997-08-05· cited 38×
• Sletten v. Ramsey County
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-02-26· cited 38×
• Vassallo ex rel. Brown v. Majeski
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-02-12· cited 36×
• Dokman v. County of Hennepin
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2001-12-18· cited 34×
• Siewert v. Northern States Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-01-26· cited 34×
• Kari v. City of Maplewood
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-08-27· cited 33×
• Conlin v. City of Saint Paul
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2000-02-10· cited 27×
• Hoffman v. Northern States Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2009-04-16· cited 18×
• S.W. v. Spring Lake Park School District No. 16
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-06-04· cited 18×
• Fear v. Independent School District 911
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2001-09-18· cited 18×
• Angell v. Hennepin County Regional Rail Authority
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-05-07· cited 17×
• Fisher v. County of Rock
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1999-07-15· cited 17×
• In Re Alexandria Accident of February 8, 1994
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1997-04-01· cited 16×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Offerdahl v. University of Minnesota Hospitals & Clinics
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-07-22· cited 379×
• Elwood v. County of Rice
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-05-06· cited 212×
• Rico v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1991-06-21· cited 168×
• Pletan v. Gaines
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-12-31· cited 156×
• Cairl v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-08-13· cited 123×
• Nusbaum v. County of Blue Earth
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-04-22· cited 122×
• Holmquist v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1988-06-10· cited 104×
• Anderson v. City of Hopkins
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-09-19· cited 80×
• Steinke v. City of Andover
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1994-12-16· cited 52×
• Olson v. Ramsey County
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-12-17· cited 45×
• Foley v. Honeywell, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1992-08-14· cited 36×
• Maras v. City of Brainerd
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1993-06-22· cited 33×
• Silver v. City of Minneapolis
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1969-08-01· cited 29×
• People v. May
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1911-06-20· cited 27×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1986-07-03· cited 25×
• Westby v. Itasca County
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-01-04· cited 10×
• Watson ex rel. Hanson v. Metropolitan Transit Commission
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1995-12-05· cited 1×