Kern v. Bumpas’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1971
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Aymond v. Western Union Telegraph Co. · Franklin v. Jonco Aircraft Corp. · Picou v. J. B. Luke's Sons · Kendall v. New Orleans Public Service · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. McCullough
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our jurisprudence requires of the complainant that he demonstrate that the act of negligence charged be the proximate cause of the injury. This condition is met by establishing a causal connection by a natural and unbroken sequence without intervening efficient causes between the negligence and the injury, and if, in the sequence of events between the original negligence and the injury, an entirely independent cause intervenes and is itself sufficient to stand as the cause of the accident, the second cause is the `proximate cause', and the other the `remote cause', of the accident. Picou v. J. B. Luke's Sons, La.App.1942, 11 So.2d 38 , affirmed 1943, 204 La. 881 , 16 So.2d 466 ; Frazier v. Ayres, La.App.1945, 20 So.2d 754 ; Kendall v. New Orleans Public Service, La.App.1950, 45 So.2d 541 ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where the depositor or bailor has proved injury he thereby establishes a sufficient prima facie case against the depositary or bailee to put him on his defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.