McKeon v. Goldstein’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2011
4 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Island Express, Inc. v. Frederick · Szymanska v. Equitable Life Insurance · Cooke v. Elk Coach Line, Inc. · Stucker v. American Stores Corp. · Brown v. Schendelman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prior and remote cause cannot be made the basis of an action if such remote cause did nothing more than furnish the condition or give rise to the occasion by which the injury was made possible if there intervened between such prior or remote cause and the injury a distinct, successive, unrelated and efficient cause of the injury even though such injury would not have happened but for such condition or occasion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The question of proximate cause is usually a question of fact to be determined by the trier of facts. [Cases cited]. This is so even in cases where there is no serious dispute concerning the material facts if the inferences to be drawn therefrom are reasonably capable of more than one conclusion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think that more than one inference may be drawn from the evidence. Hence the determination of proximate cause is a question of fact for the trier of facts and not for the Court to decide as a matter of law.””
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.