Hart v. Curry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “All that the plaintiff is required to prove on the question of for-seeability, in determining proximate cause, is that in the exercise of reasonable care, the defendant might have foreseen that some injury would result from his act or omission, or that consequences of a generally injurious nature might have been expected.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hairston v. Alexander Tank & Equipment Co. · 99 N.C. App. 1 - Johnson v. Skinner

2. ““So, the court charges you that it is generally held that in order to warrant you members of the jury in finding that the negligence of the defendants was the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the defendants’ negligent act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of attending circumstances.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Johnson v. Lamb