99 N.C. App. 1 - Johnson v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2005
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hairston v. Alexander Tank & Equipment Co. · Conley Ex Rel. Conley v. Pearce-Young-Angel Co. · Harton v. . Telephone Co. · Williams v. Smith · Jenkins v. Wheeler
Most-quoted passages
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“"Proximate cause is a cause which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new or independent cause, produced the plaintiff's injuries, and without which the injuries would not have occurred, and one from which a person of ordinary prudence could have reasonably foreseen that such a result, or consequences of a generally injurious nature, was probable under all the facts as they existed." Thus, it is axiomatic that proximate cause requires foreseeability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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