Kennedy v. Hedberg’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1965
22 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 Schaar v. Conforth · Childs v. Standard Oil Co. · Carroll v. Minnesota Valley Railroad · Denson v. McDonald · Peterson v. Martin
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unnecessary to enter upon a discussion of the doctrine that legal responsibility for an accidental injury cannot be fastened upon a man, unless his act or failure to act was the proximate cause of the injury. If his act or omission only became injurious through some distinct wrongful act of another, the last act is the proximate cause and the injury will be imputed to it. [Citing cases.] In a legal sense there was no causal connection between Hedberg’s failure to stop the motor and the accident. His omission was merely an incident in the sequence of events which preceded the accident.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wannebo v. Gates
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.