Plummer v. Dace’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bartley v. Special School District of St. Louis County · Graeff Ex Rel. Graeff v. Baptist Temple of Springfield · Hayes v. Hatfield · Smith Ex Rel. Smith v. Archbishop of St. Louis Ex Rel. Archdiocese of St. Louis · Sirna v. APC Building Corp.
Most-quoted passages
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“Where the likelihood of the intervening act is one of the hazards which rendered the original actor's conduct negligent, he cannot be insulated from the consequences of the chain of events he set in motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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