Control Techniques, Inc. v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Barry v. Quality Steel Products, Inc. (2003), Paragon Family Restaurant v. Bartolini (2003)
1 federal appellate · 33 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 Havert v. Caldwell · Bader v. Johnson · Hoesel v. Cain Kahler v. Cain · Torres v. El Paso Electric Co. · Cahoon v. Cummings
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Thhe doctrines of causation and foreseeability impose the same limitations on liability as the 'superseding cause' doe- trine. Causation limits a negligent actor's liability to foreseeable consequences. A superseding cause is, by definition, one that is not reasonably foreseeable. As a result, the doctrine in today's world adds nothing to the requirement of foreseeability that is not already inherent in the requirement of causation."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[lliability may not be imposed on an original negligent actor who sets into motion a chain of events if the ultimate injury was not reasonably foreseeable as the natural and probable consequence of the act or omission?”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'could not have been reasonably foreseen by the original negligent actor.'”
3 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.