Carney v. Dewees’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Connecticut National Bank v. Giacomi (1997), Marshak v. Marshak (1993)
4 district · 46 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 Dean v. Hershowitz · Roden v. Connecticut Co. · McGann v. Allen · Ziman v. Whitley · Milford Power Co v. Alstom Power, Inc.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘a person is liable if he * * * (b) knows that the other’s conduct constitutes a breach of duty and gives substantial assistance or encouragement to the other so to conduct himself.’ Restatement, 4 Torts, § 876. ‘If the encouragement or assistance is a substantial factor in causing the resulting tort, the one giving it is himself a tort-feasor and is responsible for the consequences of the other’s act.’ Id., comment on clause (b).””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“For harm resulting to a third person from the tortious conduct of another, one is subject to liability if he . . . . (c) gives substantial assistance to the other in accomplishing a tortious result and his own conduct, separately considered, constitutes a breach of duty to the third person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]rom the time the truck started until it turned over, none of the plaintiffs did anything which affected the conduct of the operator of either vehicle, and none of them apprehended the danger which was to ensue from that conduct or could have done anything effective to prevent it if he had.”
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.