Springer v. Sodestrom’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Irish v. United States (1955), Conroy v. Perez (1944)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 Merrill v. Los Angeles Gas Elec. Co. · Katz v. Helbing · Pastene v. Adams · 132 Cal. App. 307 - Scandalis v. Jenny · Zarzana v. Neve Drug Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities in this state hold that where the original negligence continues and exists up to the time of the injury, the concurrent negligent act of a third person causing the injury will not be regarded as an independent act of negligence, but the two concurring acts of negligence will be held to be the proximate cause of the injury.””
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.