Bell v. Lacey’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Greene v. Charlotte Chemical Laboratories, Inc. (1961), Simpson v. Plyler (1963)
28 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 Charnock v. . Taylor · Tarkington v. Printing Co. · Freeman v. . Thompson · Godfrey v. Tidewater Power Co. · Schnepp v. . Richardson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the injured party may sue either of [the tort-feasors] separately or any or all of them together, at his option”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ 'This Court has uniformly held that where all the joint tort-feasors are brought in by a plaintiff and a cause of action is stated against all of them, such defendants under our statutes, G.S. 1-137 and G.S. 1-138, are permitted to set up in their respective answers as many defenses and counterclaims as they may have arising out of the causes of action set out in the complaint. However, they are not allowed to set up and maintain cross-actions as between themselves which involve affirmative relief not germane to the plaintiff’s action. * * * This is so, notwithstanding the fact that the defendants’ claim for damages may have arisen out of the same set of circumstances upon which the plaintiff’s action is bottomed.’ ” [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Streater v. Marks
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.