No 89-15243’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Harris v. Roderick (1997), Warner v. Orange County Department of Probation (1997)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Bell v. Wolfish · First Nat. Bank of Ariz. v. Cities Service Co. · Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once it is established that the defendant's conduct has in fact been one of the causes of the ... injury, there remains the question whether the defendant should be legally responsible for the injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if another cause intervenes and supersedes [its] liability for the subsequent events.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether an alternative purpose to which [the restriction] may rationally be connected is assignable for it, and whether it appears excessive in relation to the alternative purpose assigned [to it].”
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.