Phillips v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
July 1958
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Picou v. Kansas City Public Service Co. · Roddy v. Hill Packing Co. · Flaharty v. Reed · Ripper v. City of Canton · National Oil Co. v. Rankin
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 8 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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Rapp“If an intervening act was foreseen or might reasonably have been foreseen by the first actor, his negligence may be considered the proximate or legal cause of the injury, notwithstanding the intervening act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Steele v. Rapp
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.