Weiss v. Bal

How courts have described this case

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

• stating someone faced with a sudden emergency “is not held to the same accuracy of judgment” as one who has “time to deliberate”
• unfair to permit jury to excuse driver’s conduct when alleged “emergency” is not uncommon but foreseeable
• “[W]e reject plaintiffs’ argument that such an instruction has no place in a comparative fault scheme.”
• district court erred by giving sudden emergency instruction; collision between pedestrian walking in high school parking lot and defendant’s vehicle resulted from lack of control, excessive speed and not from an emergency independent of defendant driver’s conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).