Beldon v. Hooper’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2007
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 Stone v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Clark v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Co. · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. Columbia · D. Cleghorn v. Thompson · Rodgers v. Missouri Pacific Railway 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 14 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 cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury, and without which the result would not have occurred. “If two distinct causes are successive and unrelated in their operation, one of them must be the proximate and the other the remote cause. In such case, the law regards the proximate as the efficient and responsible cause, and disregards the remote.” (Syl. flf 2, 3.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a spark of some kind, or a very heated piece of steel or iron, or something of that kind,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Rapp
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.