Greenfield v. Bruskas’s Empirical Analysis

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8 federal appellate · 56 state decisions

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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The ‘proximate cause’ of an injury is ‘the cause which, in natural and continued sequence, unbroken by an efficient, intervening cause, produced the result complained of, and without which that result would not have occurred.’ [Citation omitted] It is an ultimate fact, and it is usually an inference to be drawn by the jury from the facts proved. It only becomes a question of law when the facts regarding causation are undisputed and all reasonable inferences that can be drawn therefrom are plain, consistent, and uncontradictory. “ ‘The question of proximate cause is usually for the jury upon all the facts. Proximate cause is said to be a mixed question of law and fact which must be submitted to the jury under proper instructions. But where the facts are undisputed and the inferences to be drawn from them are plain and not open to doubt by reasonable men, it is the duty of the court to determine the question as a matter of law.’ 1 Cooley on Torts (4th Ed.) SO; [Citation omitted].””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griego v. Marquez

2. ““The findings must sustain the judgment of course, but they are to receive such construction as will uphold rather than defeat the judgment; and if from the facts found the other necessary facts to support the judgment may be reasonably inferred, it will not be disturbed by us. * * * ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Griego v. Hogan