Templeton v. . Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1969 · most notably Bundy v. . Powell (1949), Thomas v. Motor Lines (1949)
25 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plaintiff must show: First that there has been a failure to exercise proper care in the performance of some legal duty which the defendant owed the plaintiff, under the circumstances in which they were placed; and, second, that such negligent breach of duty was the proximate cause of the injury — a cause that produced the result in continuous sequence and without which it would not have occurred, and one from which any man of ordinary prudence could have foreseen that such result was probable under all the facts as they existed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Murray v. . R. R.“(1) In order to establish actionable negligence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gold v. . Kiker
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.