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8 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 39 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Smith v. Acme Paving Co..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smith v. Acme Paving Co. Anchor | green | “there may, of course, be more than one proximate cause of an injury, and the concurring negligence of a third party does not necessarily break the causal chain from original negligence to final injury.” | 6 |
| 2 | Crowe v. Gaston | green | “is grounded in policy determinations as to how far the consequences of a defendant's acts should extend.” | 6 |
| 3 | Crowe v. Gaston | green | “must show (1) the existence of a duty to the plaintiff, (2) a breach of that duty, (3) a resulting injury, and (4) the breach as the proximate cause of the injury.” | 6 |
| 4 | Briscoe v. School District No. 123 | green | “to exercise such care as an ordinarily responsible and prudent person would exercise under the same or similar circumstances.” | 6 |
| 5 | Lowman v. Wilbur | green | “in deciding whether a defendant's breach of duty is too remote or insubstantial to trigger liability as a matter of legal cause, we evaluate 'mixed considerations of logic, common sense, justice, policy, and precedent.” | 6 |
| 6 | Travis v. Bohannon | green | “analyses of duty and proximate cause often overlap and are always subject to policy considerations,” | 3 |
| 7 | Coates v. Tacoma School District No. 10 | green | “club was a curricular or extracurricular activity of the school district” | 3 |
| 8 | Palella v. Ulmer | green | “the court has found no precedent for the proposition that a school district is responsible for an injury to a student which occurs off school grounds except where such student was involved in a school sponsored or supervised off-campus activity.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.