Union Pump Co. v. Allbritton’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 194 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Doe v. Boys Clubs of Greater Dallas, Inc. (1995), MacK Trucks, Inc. v. Tamez (2006)
11 federal appellate · 162 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont))
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Palsgraf v. Long Island R.R. Co. · Lear Siegler, Inc. v. Perez · Travis v. City of Mesquite · Rourke v. Garza
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 194 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is used to denote the fact that the defendant's conduct has such an effect in producing the harm as to lead reasonable men to regard it as a cause, using that word in the popular sense, in which there always lurks the idea of responsibility, rather than in the so-called”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[F]oreseeability is an element of proximate cause, but not of producing cause.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a practical test, [a] test of common experience.”
5 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.