Panousos v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Jenkins v. Payne (1996), Kellermann v. McDonough (2009)
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Coleman v. Blankenship Oil Corp. · Blondel v. Hays · City of Richmond v. Gay's Administratrix · Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. White · Potter v. Commonwealth
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[N]ot every intervening cause is a superseding cause. In order to relieve a defendant of liability for his negligence, negligence intervening between the defendant's negligence and the injury `must so entirely supersede the operation of the defendant's negligence that it alone, without the defendant's [negligence contributing] thereto in the slightest degree, produces the injury.' Richmond v. Gay, 103 Va. 320, 324 , 49 S.E. 482, 483 (1905). Furthermore, an intervening cause is not a superseding cause if it was `put into operation by the defendant's wrongful act or omission.' Jefferson Hospital, Inc. v. Van Lear, 186 Va. 74, 81 , 41 S.E.2d 441, 444 (1947)."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There may . . . be more than one proximate cause of an event.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.