Scott v. Robson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2002
18 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 Cort v. Ash · Parker v. Randolph · Harland v. Anderson · Ash v. Cort · Pickett v. Kyger
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`It is hornbook law requiring no citation of authority that the material elements that the plaintiff must prove in order to prevail in a damage action of this kind are: "`(1) A duty owing from defendant to plaintiff; "`(2) A breach of that duty by defendant; "`(3) Constituting proximate cause of; "`(4) Injuries and damages to plaintiff. "`Plaintiff must introduce evidence proving or tending to prove each of these material elements in order to be entitled to have his case submitted to the jury. In the instant case plaintiff's evidence, viewed most favorably to plaintiff, tends to establish the duty, breach, injury, and damages. But there is a total absence of any evidence tending to establish a proximate causal connection between the breach[ed] ... duty and plaintiff's injuries and damages.' "In Pickett this Court directed summary judgment in favor of the defendant as a result of the plaintiff's failure to establish a proximate causal connection."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In Pickett this Court directed summary judgment in favor of the defendant as a result of the plaintiff's failure to establish a proximate causal connection.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that a plaintiff is subject to summary judgment if he fails in establishing certain material elements in a negligence action”
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.