Proximate cause rule
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 36 U.S. 213 - Waters v. Merchants' Louisville Insurance · 1837Most cited · 99 citing opinions
insurance
It is a well-established principle of that law, that in all cases of loss, we are to attribute it to the proximate cause, and not to any remote cause; causa proxima non remota spectatur: and this has become a maxim, not only to govern other cases, but to govern cases arising under policies of insurance.
How often courts cite the case defining “Proximate cause rule”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Proximate cause rule” — 97 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.