Glazer v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1979
6 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 Bradshaw v. Baylor University · Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. Conley · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Conley · Oats v. Dublin National Bank · Orange & Northwestern Railroad v. Harris
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the concurring negligent acts give to the injured a cause of action against the joint tort-feasors, the incidental right of a joint tort-feasor to compel contribution is created. Once in heing, although contingent, subordinate, or inchoate, it has an existence in contemplation of law until it is no longer needed as a resource to which the joint tort-feasor may look for relief from an inequitable burden placed upon him hy reason of the refusal of another to perform such other’s duty hy paying his honest share of the common obligation, * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Distefano v. Lamborn
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.