31 N.C. App. 609 - Warren v. Parks’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
April 1984
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Investment Properties of Asheville, Inc. v. Norburn · Lewis v. . Watson · Gregory v. Lynch · Price v. Gray · Tillman v. Bellamy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot agree with the implication in defendants' contention that the use of the article "a" was sufficient to inform the jury on the law of concurring negligence and multiple proximate causes. The error in the charge lies not in what was stated, but in what was omitted. Where there is evidence that the negligence of more than one person may have proximately caused the plaintiff's injuries, we think the judge has a duty to explain to the jury that there may be multiple proxi mate causes and that a finding of negligence on the part of one person does not necessarily exculpate the others.”
2 later decisions 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.