Freeman v. Sproles’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Embrey v. Holly (1982), Akin v. Dahl (1983)
29 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 McLaughlin v. Siegel · Remine v. Whited · 138 W. Va. 437 - Brewer v. Appalachian Constructors, Inc. · Hogg v. Plant · Kelly v. Schneller
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, when an action is against several joint tortfeasors, if the finding is against all of them, the verdict should be a single verdict against all for a single sum and not a several verdict against each defendant either in the same or separate sums; there can be no apportionment of damages as between defendants jointly liable in such a case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whatever the decisions elsewhere, the true rule in this jurisdiction is that, with one exception (where no harm is done a defendant), in an action against several for a single wrong, the verdict should be a joint one against all found guilty.”
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.