Goff v. Wang’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2012
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Wilson v. Great Northern Railway Company · Waggoner v. Midwestern Development, Inc. · Shaffer v. Honeywell, Inc. · Mulder v. Tague · Lytle v. Morgan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ T]o support a recovery in negligence the defendant’s act must have proximately caused the plaintiff’s injury. Schmeling v. Jorgensen, 77 S.D. 8 , 84 N.W.2d 558 (1957). As this Court stated in Goff v. Wang, 296 N.W.2d 729, 730 (S.D.1980), ‘[t]he issues of whether defendant owed a duty to the plaintiff and whether the defendant’s conduct proximately caused the plaintiff’s injury are, in effect, so interrelated that they are generally treated as one in the same.’”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term “proximate cause” contemplates an immediate cause which, in natural or probable sequence, produces the injury complained of. This excludes the idea of legal liability based on mere speculative possibilities or circumstances and conditions remotely connected to the events leading up to an 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.