parent nodes: 42 USC 1983 | causation | Duty | Negligence Torts | standing
proximate cause
"Recurring miss" cases
[incremental risk] cases
[Herskovits v Group Health Coop] (L where negligence reduced cancer patient's survival chances from 39% to 25%)
[market share liability]
[intervening cause]
[Palsgraft v Long Island RR] (NL to railroad pushers who caused passenger's hidden bomb to explode, knocking tiles off roof and injuring P)
[alternative liability]
[Summers v Tice] (two negligent shooters held liable for one shot to plaintiff)
[Kingston v Chicago NW RR] (L to railroad where one fire by railroad and one fire of unknown negligent origin combined and burned down plaintiff's lumber)
[Sindell v Abbott Labs] (L to drug company for market share of highly fungible, hard-to-identify drug that injured plaintiffs)
[foreseeability]
[Wagon Mound case] (L to dock not for close by, partially negligent ship, but to far-away non-negligent ship)
[Central Georgia RR v Price] (NL to railroad that lets P off at wrong stop when P injured by hotel lamp)
cf. [Hynes] L case where plaintiff raped walking back from wrong stop