Powell v. Drumheller’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Davis v. Berwind Corp. (1997), Jones v. Chieffo (1997)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 Soberon v. United States · Latimer v. Stainer · Hamil v. Bashline · Mascaro v. Youth Study Center · Vattimo v. Lower Bucks Hospital, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“). 86 Thus, evidence of the plaintiff's or a third party's conduct, whether negligent or not, is admissible to rebut the allegation that a defect actually caused the injury. Nevertheless, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that a plaintiff's or third party's conduct does not relieve the defendant of liability for a defect which was a substantial factor in bringing about the accident unless the conduct constituted a superseding or intervening cause of the injury. Thus, the defendant is liable as long as the defect was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a substantial factor in bringing about the harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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