Gartner v. Lombard Bros.’s Empirical Analysis
197 F.2d 53 · 1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1988
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1 (Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 1992)
Relies on Sheppard v. Atlantic States Gas Co. of Pennsylvania, Inc. · Honaman v. Philadelphia · Styer v. Reading · Sinn v. Farmers Deposit Savings Bank
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon a trial of the facts there may or may not be made out a case whereby [Zellers] can be compelled to contribute to [the defendants].” “We think it is premature, therefore, to dismiss the third-party complaint at this stage.” Gartner v. Lombard Bros., et al., 197 F.2d 53, 55, 56 (3 Cir. 1952).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Contribution shall be enforcible among those who are jointly or severally liable for a.tort where, as between them, such liabilities are either all primary or all secondary.” ’ Act of June 24, 1939, P.L. 1075, § 1; 12 Purdon’s Pa.Stat.Ann. § 2081.”
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.