Smith v. Secrist’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
November 1992
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dickerson v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Floyd v. St. Louis Public Service Company · Mitchell v. Buchheit · Strake v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. · Vaccaro v. Moss
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, it is sufficient to constitute proximate cause that the negligence charged was the efficient cause which set in motion the chain of circumstances leading up to the injury. The test is not whether a reasonably prudent person would have foreseen the particular injury but whether, after the occurrences, the injury appears to be the reasonable and probable consequences of the act or omission of the defendant.”
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.