Rawls v. Ziegler’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 128 So. 2d 390 - Carter v. Hector Supply Co. (1961), Dorse v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1987)
26 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Jamieson v. Woodward & Lothrop · Cone v. Inter County Telephone Telegraph Co. · Matthews v. Lawnlite Company · 6 Cal. 2d 688 - Stultz v. Benson Lumber Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . where, as here, an independent force or act intervenes to bring about a result that the defendant’s negligence would not otherwise have produced, it is generally held that the defendant is liable only where the intervening force or act was reasonably foreseeable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a general principle of negligence, where an injury results from two separate and distinct acts of negligence committed by different persons operating concurrently, that both are regarded as the proximate cause and that recovery can be had against either or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * if it appears to the trial court that an asserted claim is without merit either in law or fact and nothing could be accomplished in submitting immaterial issues to a jury, then a summary judgment should be entered.”
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.