Rusch v. Korth’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1996
18 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 Wait v. Pierce · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Continental Casualty Co. · Ainsworth v. Berg · Wisconsin Power & Light Co. v. Dean · Western Casualty & Surety Co. v. Milwaukee General Construction 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... If a wrongdoer who has paid a claim may recover half the payment from another who ought in fairness to pay part of it, surely one who is found not to have been guilty of any wrong should not be denied a like recovery from one who ought in equity and fairness to pay the whole claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“independent but concurring negligence of two persons has contributed to an indivisible injury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he right of contribution is founded upon principles of equity and natural justice,”
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.