Gilliland v. Rhoads’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Noonan v. Texaco, Inc. (1986), Buckley v. Bell (1985)
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 Commercial Mutual Accident Co. v. Davis · Menarde v. Philadelphia Transportation Co. · Turner v. American Security & Trust Co. · Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Montgomery · Lemos v. Madden
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§ 103. Definition and Nature in General “ ‘Proximate cause’ is most often defined as any cause which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any efficient intervening cause, produces the result complained of and without which the result would not have occurred; but it has been recognized that the various definitions and tests of proximate cause are inadequate to afford a definite and invariable rule whereby a line can be drawn between those causes which the law regards as sufficiently proximate and those which are too remote to be the foundation of an action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * The defendant, under the law, is not permitted to say that he did not see when he could have seen by looking. As this Court has said: ‘A person is presumed to see that which he could see by looking. * * * He will not be permitted to say that he did not see what he must have seen, had he looked.’ * * *””
1 later decision 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.