The Mars’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.2d 183
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably 345 F. Supp. 353 - Hall v. EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Inc. (1972), Porello v. United States (1946)
16 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do not think it is enough, ánd I do not think anyone supposes it is enough, that in the mere train of physical causation the result should follow from the wrongful act. There must also be some mental element. It has got to be one of those consequences which is not entirely outside the range of expectation or probability, as ordinary men view it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the subsequent damages are due to an independent act of negligence, which supervenes in time.”
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.