Lynch v. Scheininger’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2011
4 district · 5 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Lopez v. Swyer · Rappaport v. Nichols · Procanik by Procanik v. Cillo
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] tortfeasor is generally held answerable for injuries which result in the ordinary course of events from his negligence and it is generally sufficient if his negligent conduct was a substantial factor in bringing about the injuries. The fact that there were also intervening causes which were foreseeable or were normal incidents of the risk created would not relieve the tortfea-sor of liability. Although the limit of proximate cause is, ultimately, an issue of law that entails a consideration of public policy and fairness, questions of proximate or intervening cause are ordinarily factual determinations for the jury.”
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.