House v. Kellerman’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Deutsch v. Shein (1980), Montgomery Elevator Co. v. McCullough Ex Rel. McCullough (1984)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 Orr v. Coleman · Harris v. Thompson · Hines v. Westerfield · Bosshammer v. Lawton · Seelbach, Inc. v. Cadick
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of whether an undisputed act or circumstance was or was not a superseding cause is a legal issue for the court to resolve, and not a factual question for the jury.” Id. at 382 . [[Image here]] “If there is no issue as to whether the act or event actually occurred, whether it constituted an independent cause superseding and eliminating the alleged negligence of the defendant as a legal cause should be determined by the court.” Id. at 383 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““To begin with, literally speaking there can never be only one 'cause’ of any result. Every cause is a collection of many factors, some identifiable and others not, all determined by prior events. The law seeks out only the collective cause or causes for which it lays responsibility on some person or persons.” Id. at 382 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As with the determination of proximate cause generally, 'whether an undisputed act or circumstance was or was not a superseding cause is a legal issue for the court to resolve, and not a factual question for the jury.”
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.