Cooper v. Richland County’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1953
6 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“What in law is a proximate cause is well expressed in the definition found in the case of R.R. Co. v. Kellogg , 94 U.S. 469 , 474 [ 24 L.Ed., 256 ]: `The primary cause may be the proximate cause of a disaster, though it operates through successive instruments as an article at the end of a chain may be moved by force applied to the other end, that force being the proximate cause of the movement, or, as in the oft-cited case of the squib thrown in the market-place. Acott v. Shepherd , 2 W. Bl., 892. The question always is, was there any unbroken connection between the wrongful act and the injury, a continuous operation? Did the facts constitute a succession of events, so linked together as to make a natural whole, or was there some new and independent cause intervening between the wrong and the injury?' This definition is quoted with approval in Mack v. R.R. , 52 S.C. 324 , 29 S.E., 905 , 40 L.R.A., 679 [ 68 Am. St. Rep., 913 ]. This Court there says: `There may be a succession of intermediate causes, each produced by the one preceding, and producing the one following. It must appear that the injury was the natural consequence of the wrongful act or omission. The new, independent, intervening cause must be one not produced by the wrongful act or omission, but independent of it, and adequate to bring the injurious results.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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