Quatray v. Wicker’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2006 · most notably Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Transport Workers Union (1981), Minyard v. Curtis Products, Inc. (1967)
4 federal appellate · 46 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 Goldman v. Mitchell-Fletcher Co. · Hobbs v. Hurley · Sincer v. Widow & Heirs of Bell · Ellis v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. · 122 Ohio St. 582 - Royan Indemnity Co. v. Becker
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Article 2103 declares that those who are liable in solido for an indebtedness to a third party are liable, each for his share of the debt, to each other. It is true that the article refers to an obligation contracted in solido; but the rules relating to obligations in solido, or joint obligations, are the same with regard to obligations arising ex delicto as with regard to obligations arising ex contractu, especially when they are fixed by a judicial decree. Loussade v. Hartman et al., 16 La. 117 ; Gardiner v. Erskine, 170 La. 212, 217 , 127 So. 604 . Article 2161 •of the Civil Code declares that subrogation takes place when a debt is paid by one who, being liable with another, or for another, for the payment of the debt, has an interest in paying it.” ( 151 So. 208 , at p. 212).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The only question therefore is whether, if one of two joint tort-feasors pays the whole amount of a judgment rendered against both of them, in solido, for damages done by them jointly, the one who pays may compel the other to contribute half of the amount paid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Linkenhoger v. Owens“[A]s there is, in law, a solidary liability among all who are condemned together for an offense or quasi offense, he who pays the totality of the solidary judgments can invoke against his associates the legal subrogation ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.