Beatty v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2017
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Illinois Central R. R. Co. v. Oswald · Gordon v. Bedard · Woodcock's Admr. v. Hallock · Cameron Et Ux. v. Bissonette Et Ux.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“liability attaches for all the injurious consequences that flow [from the defendant's negligence] until diverted by the intervention of some efficient cause that makes the injury its own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Collins v. Thomas“in the eye of the law, the person charged was bound to anticipate, the causal connection is not broken.”
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.