Harless v. Ewing’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Lopez Ex Rel. Lopez v. Maez (1982), C & H Construction & Paving Co. v. Citizens Bank (1979)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Thompson v. Anderman · Ute Park Summer Homes Ass'n v. Maxwell Land Grant Co. · Frederick v. Younger Van Lines · Burruss v. B. M. C. Logging Co. · Fitzgerald v. Valdez
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The independent intervening cause that will prevent a recovery of [sic] the act or omission of a wrongdoer must be a cause which * * * produces a different result, that could not have been reasonably foreseen. [Emphasis added]”
2 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.