Hedlund v. Hedlund’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Northern States Power Co. v. Franklin · Couillard v. Charles T. Miller Hospital, Inc. · Kroeger v. Lee · Strobel v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. · Sandhofer v. Abbott-Northwestern Hospital
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Its harmful effects must have occurred after the original negligence; (2) it must not have been brought about by the original negligence; (3) it must actively work to bring about a result which would not otherwise have followed from the original negligence; and (4) it must not have been reasonably foreseeable by the original wrongdoer.”
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.