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10 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 197 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 Boulos v. Lerner-Harrington.

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1 Boulos v. Lerner-Harrington Anchor
nyappdiv · 2015
green “a defendant moving for summary judgment in a negligence action has the burden of establishing, prima facie, that he or she was not at fault in the happening of the subject accident” 83
2 Cox v. Nunez
nyappdiv · 2005
green “there can be more than one proximate cause of an accident” 45
3 Cox v. Nunez
nyappdiv · 2005
green “generally, it is for the trier of fact to determine the issue of proximate cause” 18
4 Kalland v. Hungry Harbor Associates
nyappdiv · 2011
green “however, the issue of proximate cause may be decided as a matter of law where only one conclusion may be drawn from the established facts” 18
5 Kalland v. Hungry Harbor Associates
nyappdiv · 2011
green “generally, it is for the trier of fact to determine the issue of proximate cause” 10
6 Lapidus v. State
nyappdiv · 2008
green “the plaintiff in a negligence action 'must generally show that the defendant's negligence was a substantial cause of the events which produced the injury” 6
7 Boulos v. Lerner-Harrington
nyappdiv · 2015
green “in determining a motion for summary judgment, the evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party” 5
8 Boulos v. Lerner-Harrington
nyappdiv · 2015
green “defendant moving for summary judgment in a negligence action has the burden of establishing, prima facie, that he or she was not at fault in the happening of the subject accident” 4
9 Estate of Cook v. Gomez
nyappdiv · 2016
green “generally, it is for the trier of fact to determine the issue of proximate cause” 4
10 Kalland v. Hungry Harbor Associates
nyappdiv · 2011
green “additionally, there may be more than one proximate cause” 4

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