Grimes v. Bowerman’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1994
3 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 Hamilton v. Smith · Brand v. Hinchman
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a Plaintiff has been injured in his person or property by the wrongful act of Defendant, the fact that a third party by his wrong contributed to the injury does not relieve the Defendant from liability, and while the culpable act of a third person may be the immediate cause of the injury, still an earlier wrongful act may have contributed so effectually to it as to be regarded as the efficient, or, at least, concurrent and responsible cause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We are of opinion that, under the peculiar facts of this case, plaintiff was entitled to maintain his action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Gould
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.