Bartlett v. Roberts Recapping, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Blake Const. Co., Inc. v. Alley (1987), Shiflet v. Eller (1984)
47 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 Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Jewel Tea Co. · Atlantic Company v. Morrisette
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“before contribution may be had[,] it is essential that a cause of action by the person injured lie against the alleged wrongdoer from whom contribution is sought.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The architect’s duties both to owner and contractor arise from and are governed by the contracts related to the construction project. While such a duty may be imposed by contract, no common-law duty requires an architect to protect the contractor from purely economic loss. There can be no actionable negligence where there is no breach of a duty “to take care for the safety of the person or property of another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“arises only when one tort-feasor has paid or settled a claim for which other wrongdoers are also liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vaughan v. Callear
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.