Halifax Chick Express, Inc. v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2014
2 district · 13 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Distefano v. Lamborn · Deuscher v. Cammerano · DiStefano v. Lamborn · Follansbee v. Mayor of Jersey City
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The New York statute, Civil Practice Act, § 211-a, permits contribution in cases where judgment has been recovered. The court held that a claim of contribution could be based upon a judgment recovered after the passage of' the act, although the accident happened' before its passage. The court said that-the act was remedial only, because the-liability of all joint tortfeasors for the-entire amount of the damages existed’ from the date of the commission of the tort, and the effect of granting the remedy of contribution was to reduce — not to create or increase — the liability of the non-paying joint tortfeasor. With this view we agree. It is the discharge of the common liability that gives rise to the right of contribution; not the commission of the tort.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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