Latta v. Caulfield’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 1999 · most notably Sons of Thunder, Inc. v. Borden, Inc. (1997), Renz v. Penn Central Corp. (1981)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 Jurman v. Samuel Braen, Inc. · Pangborn v. Central Railroad Co. of NJ · Stackenwalt v. Washburn · Menger v. Laur · Latta v. Caulfield
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rather, the critical consideration in the context of multiple factors contributing to the cause of the accident, is whether the faulty act was itself too remotely or insignificantly related to the accident. If it can fairly be regarded as sufficiently remote or insignificant in relation to the eventual accident then, in a legal sense, such fault does not constitute “a cause of the accident, ... [but] simply presents the condition under which the injury was received,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.