Waters v. Hedberg’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2015
5 district · 16 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 Lubin v. Allison · Brown v. Pittsburgh · Alaska Airlines, Inc. v. Sweat · Bishop v. KLEIN FULLER · Sanderson v. Balfour
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]learly, both the master and the servant are `persons liable in tort for the same injury,' and `tortfeasors' as used in this provision refers to those persons liable in tort”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Saranillio v. Silva
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.