Atkinson v. Scheer’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Microstrategy Incorporated v. Business Objects Sa (2005), Kellermann v. McDonough (2009)
22 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 Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson · Brown v. Koulizakis · Hadeed v. Medic-24, Ltd. · Beale v. Jones · Coleman v. Blankenship Oil Corp.
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.
“"`In order to relieve a defendant of liability for his negligent act, the negligence intervening between the defendant's negligent act and the injury must so entirely supersede the operation of the defendant's negligence that it alone, without any contributing negligence by the defendant in the slightest degree, causes the injury.'"”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a superseding cause of an injury `constitutes a new effective cause and operates independently of any other act, making it and it only the proximate cause of injury.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The proximate cause of an event is that act or omission which, in natural and continuing sequence, unbroken by an efficient intervening cause, produces the event, and without which that event would not have occurred.”
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.