Crull v. Platt’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Peters v. Forster (2004), Bammerlin v. Navistar International Transportation Corp. (1994)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Elder v. Fisher · Havert v. Caldwell · 171 Ind. App. 14 - Petroski v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. · 141 Ind. App. 42 - New York Central R. Co. v. CAVINDER, ETC. · 174 Ind. App. 1 - Fruehauf Trailer Division v. Thornton
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under common law, independent intervening conduct precludes the original wrongdoer’s liability when the later conduct constitutes a cause interrupting the natural sequence of events, turning aside their course, preventing the natural and probable result of the original act or omission, and producing a result that could not have been reasonably anticipated.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“defendant's negligence merely creates a condition by which the subsequent injury producing acts of another are made possible, the existence of the first condition cannot be the proximate cause of the injuries, but is a remote cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not mean that the precise hazard or exact consequence should have been foreseen, but neither does it encompass anything which might occur.”
2 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.