Vann v. Town Topic, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 15 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The sole and precipitating cause of the attack on appellant was his decision to intervene in the melee_ Even if it be assumed that respondent owed some duty to protect appellant as he left the restaurant, a failure to discharge that duty was not the proximate cause of appellant’s injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stroot v. Taco Bell Corp.

2. “An intervening resulting cause is a new and independent force which so interrupts the chain of events initiated by defendant's alleged negligence as to become the responsible, direct, and proximate cause of the injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gage v. Morse

3. “Proximate cause is that cause which produces a particular injury without the intervention of an independent cause, in the absence of which the injuries would not have been inflicted.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gage v. Morse