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.
“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“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.