McDowell v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Perez. v. Campbell (1971), Ontiveros v. Borak (1983)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 62 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 Alires v. Southern Pacific Company · Herzberg v. White · Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. v. Conwell · Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n v. Cornum · Brand v. JH Rose Trucking Company
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proximate cause of an injury is that which, in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces an injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Another test of proximate cause recognized by our law may be helpful to you: was the negligent act of the party under consideration a material element or a substantial factor in producing the injury? An act or omission cannot be a proximate cause if it contributes only slightly or possibly to the result, for a proximate cause is one which is a material element or a substantial factor in causing the injury.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, a litigant would have little cause to complain. However, Webster also defines”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.