Balzer v. Waring’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 1994 · most notably Whitaker, Admr. v. Borntrager (1954), Chicago & Erie Railroad v. Dinius (1913)
73 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 Railroad Company v. Stout · Davis Coal Co. v. Polland · United States Cement Co. v. Cooper · Monteith v. Kokomo Wood Enameling Co. · New Castle Bridge Co. v. Doty
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Proximate cause is the act that immediately causes, or fails to prevent, an injury that might reasonably have been anticipated would result from the negligent act or omission charged, and without which such injury would not have occurred. The test is to be found in the probably injurious consequences that were to be anticipated, and not in the number of subsequent events or agencies that might arise to bring about such consequences.””
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.