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title: "Set out whether an injury was occasioned by a want of ordinary care"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/set-out-the-statutory-causation-questions-for-a-negligence-claim/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A21-SB20261022-1-US"
practice_area: "Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Set out whether an injury was occasioned by a want of ordinary care

> From the pleaded negligence and the harm, build a table with a blank for the facts on each question the lawyer names. Do not decide causation and do not write the pleading.

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Personal Injury & Compensation (workers compensation, CTP/TAC, medical negligence)](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the pleaded negligence and the harm, build a table with a blank for the facts on each question the lawyer names. Do not decide causation and do not write the pleading. |
| What the lawyer must review | There is no national negligence code. California Civil Code § 1714(a) makes a person responsible for an injury occasioned to another by a want of ordinary care or skill in the management of property or person, except so far as the injured person has, willfully or by want of ordinary care, brought the injury on himself or herself. Civil Code § 3333 measures tort damages as the amount which will compensate for all the detriment proximately caused, whether it could have been anticipated or not, except where the Code expressly provides otherwise. You decide factual cause and any proximate-cause limit the forum adds, and you write the pleading. Do not import the two-limb questions in the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW). |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Set out the statutory causation questions for a negligence claim](https://ailawframework.com/practice/personal-injury-and-compensation/set-out-the-statutory-causation-questions-for-a-negligence-claim.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: From the pleaded negligence and the harm, build a table with a blank for the facts on each question the lawyer names. Do not decide causation and do not write the pleading.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- Section 1714(a) also says the design, distribution, or marketing of firearms and ammunition is not exempt from the duty to use ordinary care.
- Other states state causation differently. Confirm the law of the place of the injury.

## Sources

- [California Civil Code § 1714, responsibility for wilful acts and for want of ordinary care](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=1714.) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [California Civil Code § 3333, measure of damages for breach of a non-contractual obligation](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=3333.) (checked 2026-10-22)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*