147 Ill. App. 3d 638 - Ruggio v. Ditkowsky’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 167 Ill. App. 3d 772 - Lowe v. Kang (1988), 276 Ill. App. 3d 454 - Israel v. National Canada Corp. (1995)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 60 Ill. 2d 287 - People v. Murrell · 84 Ill. App. 3d 1132 - Schoenberger v. Chicago Transit Authority · 75 Ill. 2d 180 - People v. Johnson · 106 Ill. App. 3d 1046 - La Grange Metal Products v. Pettibone Mulliken Corp. · 64 Ill. App. 3d 603 - Laff v. John O. Butler Co.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In an action for common law contribution, the right to contribution arises due to the compulsory payment by a joint obligor of more than his share of a common obligation. [Citations.] Before one is entitled to contribution from his coobligor, the evidence must disclose that he has paid more than his just proportion of the joint indebtedness and it must also disclose what that excess is. [Citation.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the right to contribution arises due to the compulsory payment by a joint obligor of more than his share of a common obligation.”
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.