Nickey v. Steuder’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably Gamble v. Lewis (1949), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Clark (1912)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wenning v. Teeple · Cuff v. Newark & New York Railroad · Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. Peterson · Peerless Stone Co. v. Wray · Pennsylvania Co. v. Hensil
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The breach of duty upon which an action is brought must be not only the cause, but the proximate cause, of the damage to the plaintiff.” Shearman & Redfield-on Negligence, § 26. “If an injury has resulted in consequence of a certain wrongful act or omission, but only through or by means of some intervening cause, from which last cause the injury followed as a direct and immediate consequence, the law will refer the damage to the last or proximate cause, and refuse to trace it to that which was more remote.” 1 Cooley on Torts (3d Ed.) p. 99.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The Santa Rita
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.