Steger v. Egyud’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Theobald v. Angelos (1965), Erie Insurance Exchange v. Heffernan (2007)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield · Judson v. Peoples Bank and Trust Co. · Sattelberger v. Telep · 351 Ill. App. 466 - De Lude v. Rimek · Jacobsen v. Woerner
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the amount paid for the release or covenant not to sue must reduce pro tanto the injured person's judgment against another. Prosser, Law of Torts, 2nd Ed., Sec. 46, p. 246; 109 Pa.L.R. 311, 313; Holland v. Southern Public Utilities Co., 208 N.C. 289, 180 S.E. 592, and cases cited; Jacobsen v. Woerner, supra, 149 Kan. 598, 89 P.2d 24, and cases cited.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The result is, we think, that in New Jersey a settlement with one in fact a tortfeasor brings about a pro rata reduction in a judgment against the other joint tortfeasor, and a settlement with one later proven not to have been a tortfeasor requires a pro tanto reduction in the judgment against the tortfeasor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one of two or more persons liable in tort for the same injury,”
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.