Sieben v. Sieben’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Blazovic v. Andrich (1991), Thompson v. KFB Insurance (1993)
6 district · 36 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 In Re the Attorney General, Stephan · Micheaux v. Amalgamated Meatcutters & Butcher Workmen of North America, Local P-94 · Denison State Bank v. Madeira · Kleibrink v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. · 7 Kan. App. 2d 369 - Lynn v. Taylor
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The overwhelming weight of authority is to the effect that in the absence of statutory authorization, no apportionment of compensatoiy damages may be incorporated in the judgment establishing the liability of joint tortfeasors, generally on the theory that the plaintiff should not be denied the possibility of collecting the full amount of his judgment from any one of the defendants. Therefore, in actions against two or more persons for a single tort, it is improper to return two verdicts for different sums against different defendants upon the same trial; there may be only one verdict for a single sum against all who are found guilty of the tort, irrespective of the degree of culpability. This is true even though the defendants plead separately, or are charged with distinct and different acts contributing to the injury.’ § 76. " “Where a jury apportions damages as between tortfeasors without stating the total amount of the awards, the courts have in a number of cases held that the aggregate amount of the separate assessments could not be awarded jointly, at least where the jury’s intention to award the aggregate was not demonstrated. In other cases, the verdict assessing equal amounts of damages against each of several tortfeasors without stating an aggregate amount has been held to have been intended as an award against all of the tortfeasors jointly of a sum equivalent only to the amount assessed against each.’ § 80.” 231 Kan. at 378 (quoting 74 Am Jur. 2d, Torts § 76, p”
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.