Millard Smith Marshall and Melvin Pettit v. Carl E. Mintz’s Empirical Analysis
386 F.2d 415 · 1967
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Marsh v. Illinois Cent. R. · Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. v. Pruitt · Planters Manufacturing Co. v. Protection Mutual Insurance · Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. v. Matherne · Swift & Co. v. Morgan & Sturdivant
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proximate cause, concurrent causes, foreseeability and continuing sequence, [and] independent intervening causes”
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.