Jones v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Actionable negligence requires a causal connection between the conduct of the defendant and the resulting injury to the plaintiff. If a causal connection exists, it is said that the negligence charged is the proximate cause of the injury. Proximate cause, and hence, a causal connection, are present if the evidence shows the negligence to have been the efficient cause which set in motion the chain of circumstances leading up to the injury. The test is not whether a reasonably prudent person would have foreseen the particular injury but whether, after the occurrences, the injury appears to be the reasonable and probable consequence of the act or omission of the defendant.... The mere fact that injury follows negligence does not necessarily create liability; the plaintiff has the burden of showing a causal connection between the submitted negligence and the injury. If the evidence leaves the element of causal connection in the nebulous twilight of speculation, conjecture and surmise, plaintiffs burden is not met.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thompson v. City of West Plains

2. “The elements of a cause of action for negligence are: (1) the existence of a duty on the part of the defendant to protect the plaintiff from injury, (2) breach of that duty, and (3) an injury to plaintiff which was proximately caused by the defendant’s breach.” Jones v. Ames, 901 S.W.2d 160, 162 (Mo.App.1995). 4 . Though the parties agree that the house was”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Birdsong v. Christians