Gray Ex Rel. Gray v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2008
18 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 Matthews v. Porter · Eickhoff v. Beard-Laney, Inc. · Crocker v. Weathers · Ayers v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp. · Funderburk v. Powell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhere several causes combine to produce injury, a person is not relieved from liability for negligence because he is responsible for only one of them. It is sufficient that his negligence is an efficient cause without which the injury would not have resulted to as great an extent and that any other efficient cause is not attributable to the person injured .... Consequently, if a person’s negligence is a proximate cause of an injury to another, the fact that the negligence of a third party concurred with his own negligence to produce the harm does not relieve him of liability.... In such cases, both tortfeasors are in breach of a duty of care owed to the plaintiff and, because the negligence of both concurred to produce the injury, both are liable to the full extent of the plaintiffs damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.