Davis v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Richardson Ex Rel. Estate of Richardson v. Carnegie Library Restaurant, Inc. (1988), McClenahan v. Cooley (1991)
20 federal appellate · 21 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that an intervening act of a third person is negligent in itself or is done in a negligent manner does not make it a superseding cause of harm to another which the actor's negligent conduct, is a substantial factor in bringing about, if 28”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Toth v. Yoder Co.“[t]he jury must then bridge the gap between the plaintiff's injuries and the defendant's negligence. This is the determination of cause and the remoteness of effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Of all the elements necessary to support recovery in a tort action, causation is the most susceptible to summary determination....”
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.