 Hart and Honoré built on considerable case-law support for their two candidates for intervening causes (Carpenter 1932, 1940–43; Eldredge 1937). Indeed, it is arguable that the basic distinction between principal and accomplice liability in criminal law depends in large part on this conceptualization of causation (Kadish 1985), as does the tort law distinction between “in concert” and “concurrent causer” kinds of joint tort-feasors. One worry for this view of causation, nonetheless, is that it is incomplete with respect to the remoteness range of issues usually dealt with under the rubric of “legal cause” in the law. Causation in the law fades out gradually as much it breaks off suddenly, and the direct cause analysis ignores this.