Sponsler v. Clarke Electric Cooperative, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that when a third party or other event is introduced, the sole proximate cause “defense does not totally inhere in the plaintiffs burden to prove proximate cause”
• stating sole proximate cause “introduces an issue of a third party’s conduct or a separate event into the case”
• stating sole proximate cause \introduces an issue of a third party's conduct or a separate event into the case\
• stating sole proximate cause “introduces an issue of a third party’s conduct or a separate event into the case”
• “This is also why cases in which the [sole proximate cause] defense is based on the plaintiffs conduct are distinguishable.”
• “[A] defendant is entitled to have the jury instructed on [the sole proximate cause defense] when substantial evidence supports it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).