Causey v. Burgess’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 1993
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Baltimore & O. R. v. Saunders · Weaver v. Marcus · Simon v. Strock · Little v. Robt. G. Lassiter & 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is likewise well established that the courts will not permit one joint tort-feasor defendant, against the consent of plaintiff, to bring into the action other joint tort-feasors where plaintiff has elected to proceed against one such defendant singly. To allow such action would interfere with the established, well recognized right of the plaintiff to sue one or more joint tort-feasors at his election.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Misjoinder of parties is not ground for dismissal of an action. Parties may be dropped or added by order of the court on motion of any party or of its initiative at any stage of the action and on such terms as are just. Any claim against a party may be severed and proceeded with separately.”
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.