Panhandle & Santa Fe Ry. Co. v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1983 · most notably Leigh Furniture and Carpet Co. v. Isom (1982), Dement v. Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corp. (1960)
5 federal appellate · 26 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 City of San Antonio v. McKenzie Construction Co. · Smerke v. Office Equipment Company · Ragsdale v. Ragsdale · Motley v. Mielsch · Robbins v. Wynne
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issue of sole proximate cause of an injury as distinguished from a proximate cause simply does not arise when the suit is between the injured party or those in privity with him and the person inflicting the injury, but such an issue can only arise where it is claimed that the act of a third party was a proximate cause. “It seems to us that such issue of sole proximate cause presupposes that the injury is attributable to a third party, unavoidable accident or extraneous happening, etc., and if the injury was attributable to such third party, or he was the sole proximate cause thereof, it would be immaterial whether the act as to the third party was negligence upon his part or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.