Wheeler v. Glazer’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably Renfro Drug Co. v. Lewis (1950), Strakos v. Gehring (1962)
34 federal appellate · 90 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 Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. American District Electric Protective Co. · Huey v. Dykes · Alabama Power Co. v. Curry · Gregg v. City of Wilmington · Gove v. White
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only legitimate purpose to be served in submitting unavoidable accident is to call the matter to the attention of the jury, so that it will not be overlooked, and so that the jury will understand that they do not necessarily have to find that one or the other parties to the suit was to blame for the occurrence complained of. This purpose is fully accomplished when the jury is told that the occurrence in question was an unavoidable accident if it happened without the negligence of either of the parties to the suit.””
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny person against whom, with one or more others, a judgment is rendered in any suit ... based on tort ... shall ... have a right of action against his co-defendant or co-defendants and may recover from each a sum equal to the proportion of all of the defendants named in said judgment rendered to the whole amount of said judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the injury forming the basis for the judgment against the joint tort-feasors results from a violation of a duty which one of the tort-feasors owes to the other, the latter, at common law, is entitled to contribution or indemnity from the former. (Citing cases) Under these circumstances, we think that, even if the street car company had been required to pay the judgment in favor of Mrs. Wheeler, or any part thereof, by reason of its failure to exercise a very high degree of care for her protection (as a passenger), yet it would have been entitled at common law to have complete indemnity from Glazer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.