10 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 36 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Haupt v. Sharkey.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Haupt v. Sharkey Anchor | green | “to provide a reasonably safe means of ingress and egress to patrons,” | 6 |
| 2 | Shortall v. Hawkeye's Bar and Grill | green | “was under the same duty as if the fight had occurred inside the bar.” | 5 |
| 3 | Osborne v. Stages Music Hall, Inc. | green | “the bouncers exported the club's problems to the sidewalk and then ignored the troublemakers while allowing two female patrons to leave through locked doors into the path of potentially dangerous men.” | 4 |
| 4 | Gustafson v. Mathews | green | “foreseeability is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for imposing a duty.” | 3 |
| 5 | Simmons v. Homatas | green | “acquired a duty not to encourage and assist the defendant in the tortious conduct of driving while intoxicated.” | 3 |
| 6 | Haupt v. Sharkey | green | “there is no bright line rule that a tavern owner's duty to protect its patrons from criminal acts of third parties absolutely ends at the precise property line of the tavern.” | 3 |
| 7 | Hills v. Bridgeview Little League Ass'n | green | “commercial establishments are well positioned 'to know the extent of crime on the premises to take measures to thwart it and to distribute the costs' associated with providing security.” | 3 |
| 8 | Osborne v. Stages Music Hall, Inc. | green | “it was reasonably foreseeable that a patron would be attacked upon exiting the club and, therefore, it was incumbent on the club to guard against such an occurrence.” | 3 |
| 9 | Osborne v. Stages Music Hall, Inc. | green | “because of what the bouncers knew about the two men.” | 3 |
| 10 | Bell v. Hutsell | green | “to state a claim for negligence, a plaintiff must plead a duty owed by a defendant to that plaintiff, a breach of duty, and injury proximately caused by the breach of duty.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment — for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.