Bleman v. Gold’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Vattimo v. Lower Bucks Hospital, Inc. (1983), FLICKINGER ESTATE v. Ritsky (1973)
3 federal appellate · 38 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 Stark v. Lehigh Foundries, Inc. · Westinghouse Air Brake Co. v. Pittsburgh · Ashby v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · Murray v. Pittsburgh Athletic Co. · Roadman v. Bellone
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.
“`One who negligently creates a dangerous condition cannot escape liability for the natural and probable consequences thereof, although the innocent act of a third party may have contributed to the final result. And when there are two contributing factors, it is not proximity in time that determines which of them is the proximate cause of the resulting injury. Mars v. Meadville Telephone Co., 344 Pa. 29, 31 . . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[E]ven where an intervening act is wrongful it does not become a superseding cause unless, looking retrospectively from the harm through the sequence of events by which it was produced, it is so extraordinary as not to have been reasonably foreseeable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The question of what is the cause of an accident is almost always one of fact for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sabo v. UPMC Altoona
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.