Legal Opinion
Cuffy v. City of New York
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 19, 1987PublishedCited by 531 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*258OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
In a line of cases culminating in Sorichetti v City of New York (65 NY2d 461), we recognized a narrow right to recover from a municipality for its negligent failure to provide police protection where a promise of protection was made to a particular citizen and, as a consequence, a "special duty” to that citizen arose (cf. Florence v Goldberg, 44 NY2d 189). Essential to recovery is proof that the plaintiff relied on the promise and that his reliance was causally related to the harm he suffered. In this case, there was proof of a promise of protection made by an…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- White v. GuarenteNew York Court of Appeals · 1977
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