Thomas v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Clohessy v. Weiler (1995), Halterman v. Radisson Hotel Corp. (2000)
3 federal appellate · 21 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 Smith v. New Dixie Lines, Inc. · Beale v. Jones · Saunders and Rittenhouse v. Bulluck · Vought v. Jones · Karim v. Grover
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though a plaintiff's violation of a statute ... ordinarily constitutes negligence, such negligence will not ... prevent recovery unless the violation was a proximate or concurring cause that contributed directly to the accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the negligence of the defendant is the proximate cause of the accident and that of the plaintiff the remote cause, the plaintiff may recover notwithstanding the plaintiffs negligence. It is the immediate or proximate cause which directly produces the accident, injury or damage, not the remote cause which may have antecedently contributed to it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clohessy v. Weiler“Only if reasonable persons may not differ in their conclusions that such negligence was such a cause may a trial court properly decide the question as a matter of law.”
1 later decision 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.