Kinnison v. Houghton’s Empirical Analysis
432 F.2d 1274 · 1970
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2014
11 federal appellate · 1 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 Huddleston v. Dwyer · Parsons v. Amerada Hess Corp. · Zanetti Bus Lines, Inc. v. Hurd · Zanetti Bus Lines, Inc. v. Logan · Manville v. Borg-Warner Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the proximate cause issue was within the questions of fact for the jury to decide, and its verdict against appellants is not without support.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * We believe that the charge was adequate in discussing the various grounds of negligence. In so doing the Court properly left the determination to the jury whether the no-passing zone violation, considered with all the surrounding circumstances, constituted negligence that was a proximate cause of the accident."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Distad v. Cubin
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.