Leposki v. Railway Express Agency, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
297 F.2d 849 · 1962
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2011
11 federal appellate · 2 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 McNello v. John B. Kelly, Inc. · Stark v. Lehigh Foundries, Inc. · Thornton v. Weaber · 159 Pa. Super. 513 - Diehl v. Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Pennsylvania, an intervening negligent act by a third person does not, in all cases, constitute a superseding cause relieving an antecedent wrongdoer from liability for negligently creating a dangerous condition. The act is superseding only if it was so extraordinary as not to have been reasonably foreseeable. [Citations omitted].” Leposki v. Railway Express Agency, Inc., 297 F.2d 849, 850 (3 Cir. 1962).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Should the defendant be excused from liability to the plaintiffs by the intervening act of the boy in igniting the gasoline as he did? Could the defendant reasonably foresee that this might happen? * * * If you decide that it could, you may find for the plaintiffs. If it could not have been anticipated or foreseen, your verdict should be for the defendant.”
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.