Fort v. Bash’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““A reading of the third-party complaint discloses sole liability of the third-party defendant for the accident and resulting injuries, instead of liability, of the third-party defendant to the defendant for all or part of plaintiff’s claim against the defendant. In effect the third-party complaint attempts to eliminate the original defendant as a defendant and to substitute the third-party defendant as a defendant. The attempt must fail because it is the right of the plaintiffs to choose the party or parties against whom they wish to institute an action. “Consequently, the third-party complaint cannot be sustained.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wolfe v. Johnson