Thompson v. Anderman’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Herrera Ex Rel. Estate of Ruiz v. Quality Pontiac (2003), Govich v. North American Systems, Inc. (1991)
9 federal appellate · 98 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 Roden v. Connecticut Co. · State v. Compton · Olguin v. Thygesen · Hogsett v. Hanna · Silva v. Waldie
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * The independent intervening cause that will prevent a recovery of the act or omission of a wrongdoer must be a cause which interrupts the natural sequence of events, turns aside their cause, prevents the natural and probable results of the original act or omission, and produces a different result, that could not have been reasonably foreseen. The concurrent or succeeding negligence of a third person which does not break the sequence of events is not such a cause, and constitutes no defense for the original wrongdoer, [if] in the absence of the concurrent or succeeding negligence, the accident would not have happened. Reif v. Morrison, 44 N.M. 201 , 100 P.2d 229 ; Valdez v. Gonzales, 50 N.M. 281, 288 , 176 P.2d 173 .””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The proximate cause of an injury is that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces the injury, and without which the injury would not have occurred.””
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.