Hebert v. Enos’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 district · 10 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"The word 'foreseeable' has been used to define both the limits of a duty of care and the limits of proximate cause.... As a practical matter, in deciding the foreseeability question, it seems not important whether one defines a duty as limited to guarding against reasonably foreseeable risks of harm or whether one defines the necessary causal connection between a breach of duty and some harm as one in which the harm was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the breach of a duty."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 782 - R.L. Currie Corp. v. E. Coast Sand & Gravel, Inc.

2. “a plaintiff has no reasonable expectation of proving that 'the injury to the plaintiff was a foreseeable result of the defendant's negligent conduct.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Mass. App. Ct. 782 - R.L. Currie Corp. v. E. Coast Sand & Gravel, Inc.