CARLSON v. A. & P. Corrugated Box Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a negligent defendant bears the burden of showing an “act of God” would have caused the injury independently of his negligence
• where tortfeasors are guilty of concurrent negligence each is responsible for full amount of damages on theory that but for its negligence none of the damages would have been sustained
• where tortfeasors are guilty of concurrent negligence each is responsible for full amount of damages on theory that but for its negligence none of the damages would have been sustained

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hamil v. Bashline
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-10-05· cited 562×
• Whitner v. Lojeski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-25· cited 162×
• Majors v. Brodhead Hotel
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-01-05· cited 148×
• Menarde v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-03-22· cited 117×
• Kravinsky v. Glover
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-01-19· cited 107×
• Charles v. Giant Eagle Markets
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-02-20· cited 75×
• Little v. York County Earned Income Tax Bureau
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-02-12· cited 38×
• Laform v. Bethlehem Township
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-10-18· cited 30×
• Engle v. West Penn Power Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-09-09· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Root
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-12-17· cited 21×
• Samuel Freifield, Administrator of the Estate of Gerald R. McFall Jr., Deceased v. John E. Hennessy
  Third Circuit· 1965-12-30· cited 19×
• Castelli v. Pittsburgh Railways Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-12-01· cited 19×
• Hamil v. Bashline
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-09-27· cited 17×
• Rector v. Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. of Hartford, Conn.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1960-04-25· cited 16×
• Yenchko v. Grontkowski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-05-21· cited 13×
• Astech International, LLC v. Husick
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2009-12-18· cited 13×
• Richland County v. Anderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1955-12-12· cited 12×
• Rohr v. Logan
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-09-16· cited 10×
• DeMaine v. Brillhart
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-04-12· cited 8×
• Burford v. Village of La Grange
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1967-12-20· cited 8×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Sulphur Spring Independent School District
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1880-11-22· cited 24×
• Elder v. Lykens Valley Coal Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1893-10-02· cited 21×
• Inland Power & Light Co. v. Grieger
  Ninth Circuit· 1937-07-16· cited 15×
• Siegfried v. South Bethlehem Borough
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1905-03-14· cited 14×
• Rocap v. Bell Telephone Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1911-03-20· cited 11×
• Taylor v. Canton Township
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1906-03-12· cited 11×
• Brown, Early & Co. v. Susquehanna Boom Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1885-10-05· cited 10×
• Brown v. Pine Creek Railway Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1897-10-11· cited 9×
• Livezey v. Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1870-01-24· cited 8×
• Martin v. Philadelphia
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1913-10-13· cited 7×
• Rife v. Middletown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1906-11-12· cited 6×
• Engle v. Luzerne County Gas Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1908-04-20· cited 3×