Dawson v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company v. Kellogg · Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Bigham · Morrison v. Burgess Sulphite Fibre Co. · St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Highnote · Missouri, K. & T. Ry Co. of Texas v. Graham
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this, as in all cases involving negligence, in order to liability, it must appear that the injury, not necessarily the precise, actual injury, but some like injury, ‘was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.’ ””
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.