Ekberg v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Federal Steel & Wire Corp. v. Ruhlin Construction Co. (1989), Taco Bell, Inc. v. Lannon (1987)
7 district · 47 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 Mile High Fence Co. v. Radovich · Braham v. State · Kiefer Concrete, Inc. v. Hoffman · Calkins v. Albi · 39 Colo. App. 451 - People v. Morones
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the circumstances make it likely that defendant’s negligence will result in injuries to others and where this negligence is a substantial factor in causing the injuries sustained, the requirement of proximate causation is satisfied. An intervening act of a third party does not absolve the defendant from responsibility if that act is reasonably and generally foreseeable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is not a superseding. cause immunizing the defendant from liability, if it is reasonably foreseeable.”
2 later decisions 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.