Leiker v. Gafford’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2019
8 district · 12 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 United Air Lines, Inc. v. Wiener · Schubert v. August Schubert Wagon Co. · Bair v. Peck · Equity Investors, Inc. v. Academy Insurance Group, Inc. · Leiker Ex Rel. Leiker v. Gafford
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Simply because one has been found liable for an obligation of another, it does not necessarily follow that one is entitled to indemnification. A condition precedent to indemnification is that the indemnitee must actually have paid on the obligation for which he seeks indemnification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[g]enerally, in Kansas, absent an applicable Supreme Court rule or express contractual or statutory authority to the contrary, parties bear the cost of their own attorney fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`a cause of action for indemnity based on tort does not accrue until the indemnitee has suffered an actual loss.'”
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.