Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals , the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo , a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United States Supreme Court justice . 
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