Rivers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Lavoie v. Pacific Press & Shear Co. (1992), Peck v. Counseling Service of Addison County, Inc. (1985)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 35 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 Dodge v. McArthur · McDonnell v. Montgomery Ward & Company · Bennett v. Robertson · Paquin v. St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. · Davis v. Davis
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There are two interrelated legal concerns involved here. The first is whether or not the acts of the defendants as set out in the pleadings constitute negligence. The second is the related question of whether, if negligence, those acts formed any part of the proximate cause. Without that connection, negligence itself does not support recovery. Paquin v. St. Johnsbury Trucking Co., Inc., 116 Vt. 466, 470 , 78 A.2d 683 (1951).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Finnegan v. State“These statutes represent a part of the rehabilitative pattern for criminal offenders that the Legislature has seen fit to implement. That body deliberately elected to put upon the public the risks incident to such a program, in return for the presumably greater rehabilitative returns. Whether this was wise policy is not a judicial concern, since it was clearly within the proper province of the Legislature to undertake it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sorge v. State“proximate cause calls for a causal connection between the act for which the defendant is claimed to be responsible and which is alleged to be negligent and the resulting flow of injurious consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. State
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.