Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
(重定向自Palsgraf)

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y. 1928), was a decision by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York, written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a Supreme Court justice. Palsgraf is a landmark decision in tort law that helped establish the concept of proximate cause, a limitation of negligence with respect to scope of liability.