Krauss v. Greenbarg’s Empirical Analysis
137 F.2d 569 · 1943
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2014 · most notably Majors v. Brodhead Hotel (1965), Eazor Express, Inc. v. The International Brotherhood Of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen And Helpers Of America (1975)
14 federal appellate · 10 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co. · Palmer v. Hoffman · Globe Refining Company v. Landa Cotton Oil Company · Gunn v. United States
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One of the legal tests which must be met in order for something which is a cause in fact to be a “legal cause” is that it shall have been a substantial factor in bringing about the harm. As thus used substantial denotes “the fact that the defendant’s conduct has such an effect in producing the harm as to lead reasonable men to regard it as a cause, ....” If a number of factors are operating one may so predominate in bringing about the harm as to make the effect produced by others so negligible that they cannot be considered substantial factors and hence legal causes of the harm produced. In that event liability attaches, the requisites of legal cause being shown, only to the one responsible for the predominating, or substantial, factor bringing the harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For a cause in fact to be a legal cause, it must have been a substantial factor in bringing about the harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.