Kinsman Transit Company v. City of Buffalo’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 3 Cal. 4th 370 - Bily v. Arthur Young & Co. (1992), People Express Airlines, Inc. v. Consolidated Rail Corp. (1985)
8 district · 14 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 Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Brady v. Southern Railway Co. · Robins Dry Dock & Repair Co. v. Flint · Southern Railway Co. v. Clift · Kinsman Transit Company Steamer Macgilvray Shiras Steamer Michael Tewksbury
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he connection between the defendants’ negligence and the claimants’ damages is too tenuous and remote to permit recovery.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is all a question of expediency ... of fair judgment, always keeping in mind the fact that we endeavor to make a rule in each case that will be practical and in keeping with the general understanding of mankind.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To anyone familiar with N.Y. traffic there can be no doubt that a foreseeable result of an accident in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel during rush hour is that thousands of people will be delayed. A driver who negligently caused such an accident would certainly be held accountable to those physically injured in the crash. But we doubt that damages would be recoverable against the negligent driver in favor of truckers or contract carriers who suffered provable losses because of the delay or to the wage earner who was forced to 'clock in' an hour late. And yet it was surely foreseeable that among the many who would be delayed would be truckers and wage earners.”
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.