Havert v. Caldwell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Brownell v. Figel (1991), Rhodes v. Wright (2004)
2 federal appellate · 115 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 Thornton Ex Rel. Thornton v. Pender · Memorial Hospital of South Bend, Inc. v. Scott · Palace Bar, Inc. v. Fearnot · Huey v. Milligan · 174 Ind. App. 638 - Johnson v. Bender
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An intervening cause, with respect to the doctrine of proximate cause, means, not a concurrent and contributing cause, but a superseding cause, which is itself the natural and logical cause of the harm or the immediate and direct cause of the injury; and where the cause of an injury or death is the negligent act of an independent responsible intervening agency, such act must be regarded as the proximate cause thereof and the original negligence considered as only the remote cause."”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a natural and probable consequence, which in the light of the cireum-stances, should have been foreseen or anticipated.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the ultimate injury [is] one that was foreseen, or reasonably should have been foreseen, as the natural and probable consequence of the act or omission.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.