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← 278 Va. 57 - Williams v. Joynes

Williams v. Joynes’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

18 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson · Allied Productions, Inc. v. Duesterdick · Beale v. Jones · Coleman v. Blankenship Oil Corp. · Maroulis v. Elliott

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

  1. “A proximate cause is 'an act or omission that, in natural and continuous sequence unbroken by a superseding cause, produces a particular event and without which that event would not have occurred.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a superseding cause is a new cause of a plaintiff's injury, becoming the only proximate cause of that injury.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.