Atherton v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 1992 · most notably William J. Schneider v. Chrysler Motors Corporation, a Corporation, and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, a Corporation, William J. Schneider v. Chrysler Corporation, a Corporation (1968), Kendrick v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (1958)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 36 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 Rowell v. City of Wichita · Frazier v. Cities Service Oil Co. · Cruse v. Dole · Starks Food Markets, Inc. v. El Dorado Refining Co. · Houdashelt v. State Highway Commission
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The proximate cause of an injury is that cause which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the injury and without which the injury would not have occurred, the injury being the natural and probable consequence of the wrongful act." (Syl. 3.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A petition which otherwise states a cause of action is not subject to a demurrer for the reason that it seeks to recover more or different relief than that to which plaintiff is entitled.” (Syl. f 1.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cooley v. Shepherd“"The negligence charged must have been the proximate or legal cause of the injury, and what is the proximate cause is ordinarily a question for the jury."”
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.