Young v. Massey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 87 state decisions

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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In the Tips Case we held that the term new and independent cause means ‘the act or omission of a separate and independent agency, which destroys the causal connection between the negligent act or omission of the defendant and the injury complained of, and thereby becomes, in itself, the immediate cause of such injury.’ In such case we also held that the term proximate cause is generally defined as meaning ‘that cause which, in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new and independent cause, produces the injury, and without which the result could not have occurred.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Teer v. J. Weingarten, Inc.

2. ““It is the settled law of this state that if the evidence in a negligence case raises the issue of new and independent cause, it is reversible error not to include the term in the definition of proximate cause. Also, if such term is necessary to be used in the definition of proximate cause, it is reversible error not to define it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Phelan v. Lopez